In Conversation With… author and poet Annette Libeskind Berkovits

Scientist, educator, conservationist, author, and poet, Annette Libeskind Berkovits, was born in Kyrgyzstan and grew up in postwar Poland and the fledgling state of Israel before coming to America at age sixteen.

After her retirement as Senior Vice President at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Berkovits has channeled her passions into writing. Her first memoir, In the Unlikeliest of Places, a story of her remarkable father’s survival, was published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2014. Her second memoir, Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator (based on her amazing wildlife career), was published in 2017. Erythra Thalassa: Brain Disrupted is her first poetry chapbook.

For more about Annette, visit her website and follow her on Twitter and Facebook. 

In today's conversation, Annette and I discuss how her son’s stroke and the aftermath inspired her poetry collection, Erythra Thalassa: Brain Disrupted, and how writing can serve as a lifeline when tragedy strikes.