Anne Pinkerton

Anne Pinkerton's is the author of Were You Close? a sister's quest to know the brother she lost (Vine Leaves Press, 2023), a semi-finalist for the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Prize and a winner of a Royal Dragonfly Book Award. Her writing often focuses on making sense of challenging life experiences; significant themes include loss, grief, and coping. She has published essays and poems in Hippocampus Magazine, Ars Medica, Modern Loss, and “Beautiful Things” at River Teeth Journal, Sunlight Press, and The Bark, among other publications, and the anthologies, The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink and Nothing Divine Dies: A Poetry Anthology About Nature. Were You Close? was a semi-finalist for the 2019 River Teeth Book Prize. Pinkerton studied poetry at Hampshire College and received an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University.