Bio
Scientist, educator, conservationist, and author, 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.
Culminating her three-decade career with the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York as Senior Vice President and recognized by the National Science Foundation for her outstanding leadership in the field, Annette spearheaded the institution’s science education programs throughout the nation and the world.
Despite being uprooted from country to country, Berkovits has channeled her passions into language study and writing. She has published two memoirs and a third, Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents will be released on September 13th, 2022 from Amsterdam Publishers. Earlier in the year, on March of 2022, a historical novel The Corset Maker, was released by the same publisher. Erythra Thalassa: Brain Disrupted was her first poetry chapbook.
Her first memoir, In the Unlikeliest of Places, a story of her remarkable father’s survival, was published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in September 2014 and reissued in paperback in 2016. Her second memoir, Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator, was published in April 2017.
Her stories and poems have appeared in Silk Road Review: a Literary Crossroads; Persimmon Tree; American Gothic: a New Chamber Opera; Blood & Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine; and The Healing Muse.
Scientist, educator, conservationist, and author, 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.
Culminating her three-decade career with the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York as Senior Vice President and recognized by the National Science Foundation for her outstanding leadership in the field, Annette spearheaded the institution’s science education programs throughout the nation and the world.
Despite being uprooted from country to country, Berkovits has channeled her passions into language study and writing. She has published two memoirs and a third, Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents will be released on September 13th, 2022 from Amsterdam Publishers. Earlier in the year, on March of 2022, a historical novel The Corset Maker, was released by the same publisher. Erythra Thalassa: Brain Disrupted was her first poetry chapbook.
Her first memoir, In the Unlikeliest of Places, a story of her remarkable father’s survival, was published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in September 2014 and reissued in paperback in 2016. Her second memoir, Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator, was published in April 2017.
Her stories and poems have appeared in Silk Road Review: a Literary Crossroads; Persimmon Tree; American Gothic: a New Chamber Opera; Blood & Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine; and The Healing Muse.
