Anne Pinkerton

Anne Pinkerton is an essayist, memoirist, and poet whose work centers on grief, loss, and coping with painful life experiences. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University and lives in Western Massachusetts. Her memoir Were You Close? (Vine Leaves Press, April 2023) explores the death of her brother, a radiologist and adventure racer who died in a fall while attempting to climb all of Colorado's 14ers. The book was a 2019 River Teeth Book Prize semi-finalist and has won a Royal Dragonfly Book Award.