Krysta Berkowitz, TWH 2027 Directors Assistant (Fiction & Nonfiction)

Krysta Berkowitz is a writer, Family Nurse Practitioner, longtime emergency nurse, and yoga instructor whose work explores the intersection of the human body, illness, healthcare, nature, and gratitude. She recently completed the first draft of Anatomy of Gratitude, a nonfiction manuscript that uses the anatomy of the human body as a framework for stories drawn from more than two decades in nursing, her own experience with a rare head and neck cancer, family, loss, and the ways yoga and awareness have helped her find gratitude throughout it all.

She is also the creator of The S-BAR, a blog inspired by the nursing communication tool Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation. Reimagined as a virtual “bar,” it is a place for Krysta to share stories from healthcare and beyond and, she hopes, eventually create space for others to share their own.

Krysta began her nursing career in 2004, spending much of it in emergency medicine before becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2020. After struggling to find her place in advanced practice and experiencing a rare cancer diagnosis that took her from New Jersey to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, she returned to writing and discovered a creative identity she had long overlooked in herself.

She lives in New Jersey with her husband, whom she has been with since they were teenagers, and their Boston terrier, Tankypants, and orange cat, Lilly. She is the proud mother of a daughter graduating from Rutgers University with a master’s degree in dietetics. When she is not writing, nursing, or teaching yoga, Krysta can usually be found traveling, hiking, birdwatching, dancing, near the ocean, or enjoying seafood and a crisp Sauvignon Blanc.

Being accepted into The Writer’s Hotel helped Krysta realize that a life rooted in science and a life rooted in creativity are not mutually exclusive. She is currently self-editing Anatomy of Gratitude and hopes its stories will encourage readers to notice beauty, meaning, and gratitude in places they might otherwise overlook.

More of Krysta’s writing can be found at The S-BAR: https://huddleatthesbar.com/