Astrid Lindstrom is a retired public school English teacher, who advised middle and high school literary magazines, took students to a writers’ conference in Middlebury, Vermont, coordinated shared memoir writing between seventh graders and senior citizens, and loved writing with all her students.

 

She has played violin in the Five College Early Music program in western Massachusetts, contra dances, works with comfort dog Jonah in the Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and has also volunteered with Jonah as reading buddies in an elementary school.

 

She grew up in Gambier, Ohio, where her parents were a mathematics professor and a librarian at Kenyon College, and has degrees in English from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Virginia.

 

She and her wife Cece, a psychotherapist who specialized in supporting lesbians coming out from straight marriage, lived in Northampton, where Astrid still resides. They have four adult children and four grandchildren.