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Anne Pinkerton is author of Were You Close? a sister's quest to know the brother she lost.

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

Anne holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University and studied poetry as an undergrad at Hampshire College. ...more

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Were You Close?: A Sister's Quest to Know the Brother She Lost

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My Effin' Life

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How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

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