B.E. Mathews shares stories from her life with Dr. Chaps via Skype.

Dr. Beena Wilkins, who writes under the pen name B. E. Mathews, is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical Branch and completed her pediatric residency training at the University of California at Irvine. She is a board-certified pediatrician with almost two decades of dedication to the well-being of children and adolescents.

In her debut book, Under the Broom Tree, she offers a fresh perspective regarding current mental health issues and shares her own soul-searching story about growing up in a hushed, closed-off Indian culture. She uses the life of Elijah, the greatest prophet of the Old Testament, as a powerful example of the common, fallible humanity in all of us.