Beth Ann Mathews, DEEP WATERS: A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews marine biologist and author Beth Ann Mathews about her thoughtful and provoking new book Deep Waters: A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled. Beth talks about her husband’s stroke and the impact it had on their lives as sailors, scientific researchers, and all-around adventure-seekers. Zibby reveals she is on an Alaska literary kick, and Beth shares what it was like to live there for twenty years. She also talks about her writing process, revealing she took meticulous notes throughout the terrifying experience, signed up for a memoir-writing class, and is working on another book!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
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| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
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| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.1 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. |
| 1:03.2 | Beth Ann Matthews is the author of Deep Waters, a memoir of loss, Alaska Adventure, |
| 1:07.9 | and love rekindled. Beth Matthews is a marine biologist and a mother of one son. |
| 1:12.7 | She grew up in a large family in the Midwest and earned a degree in animal science at Purdue University. |
| 1:17.6 | After three years as a zookeeper in the Bird Department at the Tulsa Zoo, she was granted a leave of absence to volunteer with a team of biologists on an ambitious study of breeding humpback whales in Hawaii. |
| 1:28.1 | That experience inspired her to pursue a master's degree in marine biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
| 1:33.8 | As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, Beth taught courses in biology, behavioral ecology, and marine mammology, |
| 1:41.0 | and led research on harbor seals, stellar sea lions, and harbor porpoises with her students, |
| 1:46.5 | mainly in Glacier Bay National Park. She has also studied humpback gray in sperm whales and briefly |
| 1:51.4 | sleeper sharks and led undergraduate research programs on board tall ships in the Gulf of Maine |
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