About
Beth Ann Mathews is a marine mammal biologist and author of Deep Waters: A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled. (She Writes Press). She earned her master’s degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As an associate professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, she taught courses in biology and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals, Steller sea lions, and harbor porpoises. Beth has also studied humpback, gray, and sperm whales. She’s taught undergraduate field research on humpback whales on board tall ships off Massachusetts and from field camps in Hawaii and Alaska. Her debut memoir won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Memoirs: Personal Story / Health Issues and was short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize. Mathews has published short stories and scientific papers. Beth enjoys visiting her grown son, writing, hiking, pedal-boarding, wildlife photography, and sailing with her husband in the Pacific Northwest, where they live on an island near Seattle. Beth’s second book Between Two Lights: A Memoir of Divided Love and Adventures at Sea will be pubished by SWP January, 2027. You can reach Beth at elizabethannmathews.com.
Featured Work
DEEP WATERS: A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled
A marine biologist’s fulfilling life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. Jim’s radical approach to recovery clashes with Beth’s instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska’s magnificent, yet unforgiving, waters.
