Heather Rolland

Author of Asking A Lot: Life With Dogs on Bramley Mountain, and three novels: Finders, Seekers, Losers, Keepers; Honey Melon Fudge; and bullbearpigdog and three short stories — Queen of the Catskills which one first prize in the Freeditorial Long-Short Story Contest; Wolf Heart; and Fresh Oil Loose Stone which is published in the Canadian journal “Agnes and True“; blogger, mom/chauffeur; ballgowned hiker; Belgian dog rescuer; Long Path trail maintainer; beekeeper-and-brewer-in-training… Heather is a wearer of many hats!

Heather Rolland was born and raised in New York’s Hudson Valley. She divides her time between writing, both for herself and for clients, caring for her ever evolving pack of Belgian and Dutch shepherds, her handmade silver and gemstone jewelry business called haliagrace handmade, and her efforts to create a self-sufficient homesteader lifestyle. A volunteer trail and lean to maintainer for NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, and a member of the board of directors of the Catskill 3500 Club, Heather was honored by the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development as one of 50 “Stewards of the Catskills” in honor of that organization’s 50th anniversary.

A quirky combination of home body and world traveler, she has spent time in India and Nicaragua, driven a pick-up truck across Canada, and traversed western Nepal in a Bedford bus. She is a registered yoga teacher, and has hiked the 35 high peaks of the Catskills in summer, winter, fully solo and wearing a ballgown. She makes the western Catskills her home, with her husband, the dogs, and a ridiculous number of porcupines.

Heather writes a blog about dogs, our natural world, her former life as a social worker, and all things Catskills.

Asking A Lot is her most recent full length work, a memoir-ish collection of essays about life with the pack on the mountain.