Anne Gudger is an autobiographical essayist who writes hard and loves harder. She's been published in Real Simple Magazine, The Rumpus, and the Columbia Journal among others, and has been a Best of the Net nominee twice. She is also the co-founder of Coffee and Grief, a reading series that's been thriving since March 2020 and hosts five curated readers every month reading on grief. Anne lives in Banks, Oregon with her beloved husband. The Fifth Chamber is her first book.