Anna Hays was born into a family of artists and grew up in the Hudson Valley. After graduating from Oberlin College, Anna worked in New York City as an assistant for the experimental theater company, The Wooster Group. While immersing herself in the rich alternative culture of downtown New York, she also traveled uptown to study film history at Columbia University. Her interest in filmmaking continued to develop there and soon she packed her bags and headed west. Within a few months, she landed the coveted position of producing low-budget features for B-movie king Roger Corman. Under Corman's tutelage, Anna learned virtually every aspect of filmmaking - from directing, writing, editing and casting, to distributing and exhibiting films. It was the ultimate master class in movie making and a unique introduction to the inner workings of the Hollywood film industry. Three years later, fellow Corman alum, Francis Coppola, recruited her to produce the low budget feature, Smash, Crash and Burn, with his son, film director Roman Coppola. The film never made it to the big screen in the States, but there are rumors that it was a smash hit in South Korea. From there, she, along with Sean Penn, presented the underground Soviet rock-n-roll documentary, Rock, at the Sundance Film Festival. After returning from Sundance, Anna was called back into the theater world, this time as managing director of the environmental theater festival, Padua Hills.

It was around that time that Anna began a search for a way to integrate her varied experience and start expressing her own ideas. She soon discovered the world of interactive storytelling using emerging new media. Anna was immediately intrigued by the possibility of telling stories in new ways and began to write for a variety of narrative forms. She has been creating original stories and concepts for books, children's games, toys, theme park attractions, retail destinations, mobile devices, Internet sites, DVD's, films and animation ever since.

Anna lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons.