Heather Lende, author and former Haines Borough Assembly Member

Send us Fan MailHeather Lende, the Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2021, is the author of a number of best-selling memoirs about her life in Haines. Her most recent book is 2020’s Of Bears and Ballots: an Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics, which tells the story of her time serving on the Haines Borough Assembly, where shortly after her election, a recall petition was launched against her. This interview was the very first meeting of the East Anchorage Book Club, and it happened on August 9, 2021. Lende offered us great political advice that many of those in attendance took to heart. This episode marks our one year anniversary and is the final episode of Season 1.