Lisa Bunker | |
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Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the Rockingham 18th district | |
In office December 5, 2018 – September 11, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Paula Francese |
Personal details | |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Democratic |
Residence(s) | Exeter, New Hampshire |
Lisa Bunker is an American politician who was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2018.[1] They represented the Rockingham 18th District as a member of the Democratic Party.
Bunker and Gerri Cannon were elected simultaneously as the state's first transgender state legislators.[2]
Before their election to the legislature, Bunker was program director of a community radio station in Portland, Maine. In 2017, they published a middle-grade science fiction novel, Felix Yz, about a boy fused with an alien and the risky procedure to separate them.[3] Their second middle-grade novel, Zenobia July (2019), is about a young trans girl finally living as herself and solving a cyber mystery.[4] Both are published by Penguin Random House.