Heather Lende is an author, news writer, and former member of the borough assembly from

Haines, Alaska Haines (Tlingit: ''Deishú'') is a census-designated place located in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States. It is in the northern part of the Alaska Panhandle, near Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. As of the 2020 census, the populat ...

, a position she held from 2016-2019. In 2021, Lende was named Alaska's writer laureate, and her books include: ''If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name'', ''Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs'', ''Find the Good'' and ''Of Bears and Ballots''. Lende was born and raised in New York where she attended the

Locust Valley Locust Valley is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 3,406 at the 2010 census. History The rolling h ...

Friends Academy. She received a BA from

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...

before relocating to Alaska in 1984, and an MFA

University of Alaska, Anchorage The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is a public university in Anchorage, Alaska. UAA also administers four community campuses spread across Southcentral Alaska: Kenai Peninsula College, Kodiak College, Matanuska–Susitna College, and Pr ...

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