​Anna was born in London, England. She studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University and went on to gainful employment in public relations, journalism and advertising, before throwing everything over to become a filmmaker and horror writer.
Anna has directed two short films (Ela and The Sin), two documentaries (My Uprising and A Fragment of Being) and a one-hour television drama (The Rain Has Stopped), which won two awards at the British Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2009. 

She has also worked on seventeen other films, including Ben Hopkins’ Simon Magus (starring Noah Taylor and Rutger Hauer).
Anna worked as a researcher and assistant producer on several BBC television programmes, including the series Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution and World War Two: Behind Closed Doors – Stalin, the Nazis and the West.
Anna’s feature length screenplays include: Chainsaw, The Camp, Pizzaman and The Bloody Tower.
Short screenplays include: Little Pig (finalist in the Shriekfest Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2009), Curious Melvin and Arthur’s Cellar.
Anna's short stories have been reprinted in a number of 'Year's Best' anthologies, including: The Best New Horror of the Year Volume Four (2012), Best British Horror 2014 (2014), Year's Best Weird Ficion: Volume One (2014) and JWK Fiction Best of  Horror 2013 (2014).
Anna's short story ‘Bagpuss’ was an Eric Hoffer Award Honoree and was published in Best New Writing 2011, and her story ‘Little Pig’ from The Eighth Black Book of Horror was a runner up for the Abyss Awards 2011.
Her poetry has been published in four anthologies and in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (Fall 1995).
Anna’s debut short story collection, FOR THOSE WHO DREAM MONSTERS, published in November 2013 by Mortbury Press, won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award and was nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 2014.

Her latest collection of novelettes and short stories, BLOODY BRITAIN (Shadow Publishing, 2020), was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and two British Fantasy Awards.