Beth Ann Mathews - Adventure Memoir
Beth's award-winning memoir, Deep Waters: A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled (2023), recounts how her adventurous life as a marine biology professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her 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. Deep Waters is a gripping, intimate story of relationship resilience, set against the backdrop of Alaska's dramatic marine wilderness.
Beth grew up in the Midwest and moved to Bainbridge Island in 2022 with her husband. She earned her undergraduate degree at Purdue University and her master's degree in marine biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast for 20 years, she taught courses in biology, behavioral ecology, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals, Steller sea lions, and harbor porpoises. Deep Waters won the Memoir Category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for personal struggle /health issues and a Bronze Award in the Independent Publishers Book Awards for Best Regional Non-Fiction, West-Pacific region. For more information on the author, her book, and her scientific publications please visit https://www.elizabethannmathews.com.
