annegudger
She/her/we | writer, podcaster,grief listener | Banks, OR, United States
Anne Gudger writes hard and loves harder. She's the author of THE FIFTH CHAMBER, named “an emotionally riveting memoir, raw and inspiring" by Kirkus Review. She's been published from Newsweek to The Los Angeles Review, with lots of stops in between. In March 2020, with her amazing daughter, she co-founded Coffee and Grief: a community that includes a monthly reading series focused on grief. They launched a podcast: Coffee, Grief, and Gratitude. She lives in Banks, Oregon with her beloved husband
Books
Selected work
The Life Jacket
The Rumpus, 2016
Memory Waltz by Anne Gudger — The Normal School
The Normal School, 2023
Spring Contest Runner Up in Nonfiction: Family Sauce — Columbia Journal
Columbia Journal, 2020
On Not Being Invited and Going Anyway by Anne Gudger - The Los Angeles Review
Los Angeles Review, 2023
I had my dead husband's dead wife's wedding ring—I was jealous
Newsweek, 2024