Beth invites her newsletter readers to join her in moving from this author website newsletter to Substack.

Vote on which of 3 author photos you like best for Beth’s forthcoming book. Learn something new about hummingbirds.

Beth reveals that her newsletter silence in 2025 was due to dealing with cancer. She’s moving forward and excited to say her second book will be published in January 2027.

What if the methods of raising pileated woodpeckers we perfected at the Tulsa Zoo could help conserve ivory-billed woodpeckers?

“This here’s a woolly monkey,” Gary said, “from South America. When you’re hosin’ down, keep your hands outside the bars.” Read Beth Ann Mathews’ essay from when she was a zookeeper in Indiana. Hippocampus Magazine.

Beth shares a harrowing excerpt from her book Deep Waters, family highlights from 2023, and a nature note about how great blue herons use their middle toes to keep their feathers clean.

Sandhill Cranes are on their wintering grounds now. If you live close enough, consider a field trip to visit these remarkable, unusual birds.

Deep Waters is now available as an audiobook wherever audiobooks are sold, narrated by classically trained actor and director Alex Picard!

Beth & Jim complete the 9-week expedition on their sailboat, a much longer and tougher journey than expected, but also rewarding.

Beth & Jim face rough conditions off Cape Mendocino on board their sailboat, where they encounter an injured blue whale—possibly the survivor of a ship strike or entanglement in fishing gear.

Active Voice Podcast host Katie Bausler Interviews author and marine biologist Beth Ann Mathews about her debut book Deep Waters: A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled

Author of DEEP WATERS interviewed by Suzanne M Lang and Andromeda Romano-Lax. Sex after stroke.