Heather Lende Reading & Booksigning

Join us for an afternoon with Alaska State Writer Laureate, Heather Lende for a reading from her recent book, Of Bears and Ballots. Heather will discuss themes in her writing including small-town politics, Alaskan adventures, and the importance of community.

Heather is the author of three other bestselling memoirs from Algonquin Books, Find the Good, If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name, and Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs. Her essays and stories, mostly about life and sometimes death in Haines, Alaska have been distributed widely, from The Anchorage Daily News and Christian Science Monitor to NPR and Country Living. She is a former contributing editor at Woman’s Day magazine and for over twenty years has written some 400 obituaries for the Chilkat Valley News in Haines. She and her husband Chip have lived in Haines for over 35 years where they own a lumberyard and hardware store. They have five children and 8 grandchildren. She is the recipient of the 2016 Alaska Governor’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities, the Episcopal Bishop of Alaska’s Bishop’s Cross Award, and is Alaska's current State Writer Laureate.