The Book
Were You Close? A sister’s quest to know the brother she lost
“A masterful guide to loving and losing the extraordinary among us.”
—Mary E. Plouffe Ph.D., author of I Know It in My Heart: Walking through Grief with a Child
Anthologies
“Connected” • Better Together: Women Gathering
“Hugger” • The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink
“Antares” & “Stealth” • Vita Brevis Poetry Anthology Volume III, Winter 2021/22
“Blues” • Stone Gathering, Winter 2021-22
Essays
“My brother died and people acted as if I shouldn’t be so sad” • The Boston Globe
PDF >> Author Anne Pinkerton A sibling’s death is untrodden territory
“Saltwater” • The Linden Review
“The Compass” • The Keepthings
“Friends Like These” • The HerStories Project
(reprinted in Midstory Magazine and She’s Got Issues, as “The Gift of Friendship”)
“Heirlooms” • Farmer-ish print annual > PDF
“Humane” • Shooter Literary Magazine
“The Beautiful Mundane” • Lunch Ticket (runner up for Diana Woods Memorial Award)
“A Game of Will” • The Bark > PDF
“Survivor’s Debt” • Ars Medica
“The Hell of Book Proposal Writing” • Multiplicity Magazine
“Linus and B” • Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
“Higher, Farther, Faster” • Hippocampus Magazine
“Having a Dead Sibling is Full of Contradictions” • Modern Loss
“Words With Tommy” • Entropy Magazine
“A Cat Named Sam” • Write Angles Journal
“Memorial Park” • riverSedge Literary Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1
“Tell the Truth and Lie to Me” • Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
“Congratulate Kim on Her Work Anniversary” • Modern Loss
Poems
“Blues” • “Beautiful Things” at River Teeth Journal
“Weigh Up” • Multiplicity Magazine
“For six days a goldfinch,” “Sound,” and “Tracks” • Eunoia Review
Anne Pinkerton 