Heather Andersen

For Heather Andersen, bicycling is a lifestyle. It's recreation, transportation, vacation, and sometimes work. A traveler at heart, she has cycled on six continents and in all fifty states. She's led three tours across the U.S. and biked over 100,000 lifetime miles. Before starting her African journey, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the tiny country of Lesotho. Her first--and only--book I Never Intended to Be Brave: A Woman's Bicycle Journey Through Southern Africa has won three book awards: it won the adventure category in the National Indie Excellence Book Awards, a bronze in the travel essay category in Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards, and an Honorable Mention in the biography/autobiography category in the New England Book Festival.