About Heather Rolland

author of 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-in-training… Heather is a wearer of many hats!

 

 

Official bio:

Heather Rolland, born and raised in New York’s Hudson Valley, makes the Western Catskills her home. A quirky combination of home body and world traveler, she hates to leave her mountain home, but 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 Catskill 35 countless times.  Wildlife photography is her current passion.

Heather writes YogaPantsHikingBoots (you are here), a blog about all things Catskillian, dog-focused, hikerly, and often self-deprecating, with the occasional restaurant review or recipe thrown in.  Please see the “About YPHB” page for more details about this blog.

Heather was diagnosed with a rare chronic illness in 2021. The impact of achalasia on her writing is apparent, as the blog has featured more essays on “getting sick and getting better” than hiking or dogs of late. As the focus shifted from acute to chronic, so too has the focus of her writing begun to reassemble itself .