Astra Lincoln is a writer whose work focus on people, power and place.

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She is currently writing her first book, a researched memoir about identity formation and truth-telling in the wake of a catastrophic brain injury. In 2024, the manuscript was selected as a finalist in The Yale Review's Nonfiction Book Competition. 

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In 2022, Astra won the Banff Mountain Book Competition’s ‘Best Essay’ award. Her work has also been nominated for the Society for Environmental Journalist’s ‘Best Feature’ prize and for inclusion in the Best American Essays anthology. Several of her pieces have been included in ‘Best of the Year’ lists. 

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Astra teaches and facilitates with programs like Write Around Portland and the Juneau Icefield Research program. She has led writing workshops while ski-traversing Alaska's biggest icefield, in an assisted living facility, on bike rides, to people experiencing dementia, and on the side of a mountain in the Selkirks only accessible by helicopter. She will occasionally also teach in classrooms.

 

A graduate of the Banff Centre’s Mountain and Wilderness Writing residency program, Astra’s work has been supported by the Freeflow Institute, the American Alpine Club, and other organizations. In 2024, she was an Oregon Humanities Community Storytelling Fellow.

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