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Jennifer Pinkerton is a Darwin-based writer, photographer and producer who holds a doctorate in creative arts and has written stories for The Australian, The Guardian (UK), The Telegraph (UK), National Geographic (USA), Qantas Magazine, Voyeur Magazine and Marie Claire, among other publications. She previously worked as a features editor at Pacific Magazines and as an editor with POL Publications in Sydney and Melbourne. Jennifer helped found a live storytelling event in Darwin called SPUN: True Tales Told in the Territory; produced a storytelling event in Canberra for the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages; and was a finalist in the ACT Writers' Centre HARDCOPY non-fiction program. She teaches non-fiction writing and media studies at Charles Darwin University.
The search for modern romance can often seem transactional, the acronyms so numerous it is practically bureaucratic and the constant browsing a rabbit-hole into narcissism, so when journalist Jennifer Pinkerton turns her warm and curious gaze on this new landscape of sex and love, her lens is a welcome one. Always observing, sometimes tense with desire or frank with her unease, Pinkerton listens to her interviewees and details their journeys without ever resorting to the picket-fence safety of judgment. She breathes life into what has become an online catalogue and is the perfect guide to take the pulse of modern love. But what makes Heartland most special is Pinkerton's own journey through love and loss; while never indulgent, it is these glimpses into the author's heart where she reveals bruises and aches - those almost unbearable aspects of love - that are most compelling. Anna Krien
