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Astra Lincoln is a writer, editor, cultural organizer, and strategist working at the intersection of people, power and place.

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Currently a contributing editor at Summit Journal and the managing editor of Trial Talk Journal, Astra has previously served as the editor-in-chief of the Chrysalis literary and arts journal and as a staff writer at Capital Daily News and the Willamette Collegian.

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Two-time winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition’s ‘Best Article’ award (2022, 2024), her work has also been nominated by publishers for the Society for Environmental Journalist’s ‘Best Feature’ prize, for a National Magazine 'Best Feature' award, 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 creative nonfiction workshops with Write Around Portland and the Juneau Icefield Research program. She has led creative 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 a Freeflow Foundation scholarship and an American Alpine Club research award. In 2024, she was an Oregon Humanities Community Storytelling Fellow.

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In addition to her creative work, Astra has provided editorial, research, and strategic planning services to more than 30 cultural organizations, coalitions and Indigenous groups. Her past clients include the ACLU, the UN Environment Programme, as well as dozens of Indigenous governments and communities in the US and Canada. She has supported in policy creation, land use planning, impact-benefit negotiation, environmental assessments, strategy development, and climate resiliency.​​​

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Astra 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. 

For book-related inquiries, contact Naomi Eisenbeiss at naomi@inkwellmanagement.com. For everything else, you can get in touch by writing her at astralincoln@gmail.com.

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