Originally published in Shelf Awareness for Readers April 5, 2019 Among explorers, hunters and fishermen, Alaska was long known perceived as a man’s world. Women have often had to fight for the chance to love this harsh, beautiful land and prove they can handle its challenges. Sophie Forrester, military wife and aspiring photographer, is initially …
Heather Lende has contributed essays and commentary to NPR, the New York Times, and National Geographic Traveler. A columnist for the Alaska Dispatch News, she writes obituaries for the Chilkat Valley News and is the author of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs and the New York Times bestseller If You Lived …
Let’s list the ways that the North Words Writers Symposium in Skaguay, AK sounds really cool: 1. One of the organizers is named Buckwheat. 2. Keynote speaker is Howard Blum (The Floor of Heaven and American Lightning).
Alaska author Heather Lende has a lump-in-the-throat of a Thanksgiving column about being grateful for her messy, loud, doghairy family that’s in the current issue of Woman’s Day. Lende is the author of indie favorites If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name and Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs. She also writes …
