Heather Lende

{{Short description|Author, news write}}

Heather Lende is an author, news writer, and former member of the borough assembly from Haines, Alaska, a position she held in 2016-2019.{{Cite news |date=2021-05-13 |title=Heather Lende, whose memoirs chronicle life in Haines, is named Alaska State Writer Laureate |language=en |work=Anchorage Daily News |url=https://www.adn.com/arts/books/2021/05/12/heather-lende-whose-memoirs-chronicle-life-in-haines-is-named-alaska-state-writer-laureate/ |access-date=2022-08-29}}{{Cite news |last=Hickman |first=Matt |date=2021-10-21 |title=Time on Haines Borough Assembly source of Heather Lende's new book 'Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small Town Politics'. |url=https://www.anchoragepress.com/arts_and_entertainment/time-on-haines-borough-assembly-source-of-heather-lendes-new-book-of-bears-and-ballots/article_51a7f2ae-cab8-11ea-8796-077779e8bb1d.html |access-date=2022-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021010137/https://www.anchoragepress.com/arts_and_entertainment/time-on-haines-borough-assembly-source-of-heather-lendes-new-book-of-bears-and-ballots/article_51a7f2ae-cab8-11ea-8796-077779e8bb1d.html |archive-date=21 October 2021 |url-status=dead}}

In 2021, Lende was named Alaska's writer laureate,{{Cite news |last=Swasey |first=Mike |date=2021-05-21 |title=Heather Lende of Haines named Alaska's Writer Laureate |language=en-US |work=KHNS-Haines |url=https://alaskapublic.org/2021/05/21/heather-lende-of-haines-named-alaskas-writer-laureate/ |access-date=2022-08-29}} 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 Friends Academy. She received a BA from Middlebury College before relocating to Alaska in 1984, and an MFA University of Alaska, Anchorage.{{Cite news |date=2019-04-03 |title=Bio, Heather Lende |language=en-US |url=https://www.heatherlende.com/bio/ |access-date=2022-08-29}}{{Cite news |title=A Local's Guide to Haines |language=en |url=https://www.travelalaska.com/explore-alaska/locals-tips/a-locals-guide-to-haines |access-date=2022-08-29}}