Were You Close?: A sister’s quest to know the brother she lost

Anne Pinkerton

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BIOGRAPHY
Anne Pinkerton is an essayist, memoirist, and poet. Her work often circles around grief and loss, as well as coping with these painful realities in our lives.

Her memoir, Were You Close? a sister’s quest to know the brother she lost, published in April 2023 through Vine Leaves Press.

Anne’s poetry and essays have appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Ars Medica, Modern Loss, “Beautiful Things” at River Teeth Journal, Sunlight Press, The Bark, and The HerStories Project, among other journals, as well as the anthologies, The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink, Nothing Divine Dies: A Poetry Anthology About Nature, and Better Together: An Anthology of Women Gathering.

Anne holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University and studied poetry as an undergrad at Hampshire College. She grew up in Texas and lives in western Massachusetts.