Astra Lincoln is a freelance writer. She's a contributing editor of Summit Journal. She has also written essays for Los Angeles Times, High Country News, Undark, The Baffler, and others. In 2024, an unpublished draft of her first book was selected as a finalist for the inaugural Yale nonfiction book prize. You can read an excerpt from the manuscript here. 

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In 2024, Astra was an Oregon Humanities Storytelling Fellow. She wrote this essay with support from an Economic Hardship Reporting Project grant. This one was longlisted for the AIPS sports media award. This one was nominated for a Pushcart. This one was a finalist for the Quarterly West nonfiction prize. She has won two Banff Mountain Book Competition awards, in 2022 and in 2024.

 

Astra has been awarded residencies from Centrum, Tin House, Arrowmont, Stoveworks, and the Banff Centre. She has been a writing faculty member of the Juneau Icefield Research Program, and has taught writing courses on glaciers, mountainsides and bike rides, and in assisted living facilities. She's on the council of writers for the nonprofit, Write Around Portland.​

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Before all of this, she was kind of a dirtbag, lived in a van, and rode her bike tens of thousands of miles around North America, Europe and Africa. 

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These days, she splits her time between Portland, Oregon, the Sierra Nevada, and B.C.