Lisa Bunker
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Lisa Bunker is an American politician, who was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in the 2018 elections. She represents the Rockingham 18th District as a member of the Democratic Party.
Bunker and Gerri Cannon were elected alongside each other as the state's first transgender state legislators.
Prior to her election to the legislature, Bunker was program director of a community radio station in Portland, Maine. In 2017 she published a middle grade science fiction novel Felix Yz about a boy fused with an alien and the risky procedure to separate them. Her second middle grade novel, Zenobia July, was released in 2019 and is about a young trans girl finally living as herself and solving a cyber mystery.Both titles are published by Penguin Random House.