Ashley Bradbury was born and raised in Ventura, California. Imaginative storytelling started in her mind, but her fourth-grade teacher pointed her written ability out to her. Her first love was horror and a close second: science fiction. Both subjects enamored her.

She spent a part of her childhood in Silverdale, Washington when her family relocated back to Southern California. It was not long after moving back to the sunshine state, that she knew she was a Californian for life.

In 2007, Ashley relocated to the East Coast and obtained both her undergraduate and a graduate degree from eastern schools. After completing her MFA in Creative Writing, she is working on completing her first Young Adult Horror novel.