Anna Orridge was born in Birmingham, UK. After completing a degree in English and Related Literatures at the University of York, she spent a number of years teaching English in Spain and Slovakia. Her short horror fiction has appeared in Mslexia, The Gothic Nature Journal, The Crow's Quill, Rewired: Divergent Perspectives In Horror and Rock Band. Her essay 'Bihexuality In The Craft' appeared in the 2023 anthology Divergent Terror: The Crossroads Of Queerness and Horror. One of her short pieces of dark speculative fiction, 'Backdrop', was adapted for an audiodrama. Her publications in 2024 included contributions to 'Short Scares: Two Sentence Horrors anthology' and 'The Utopia Of Us' anthology. She now lives in London with her family, working as a climate action advisor for a charity.