Anne Billson

{{Short description|English writer, photographer, and film critic}}

Anne Billson (born 1954) is a writer, photographer, and film critic who was born in Southport, England. Her fiction is characterized by the combination of horror with satire and includes the novels Suckers (1993), Stiff Lips (1997), The Ex (2012), {{Cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/anne-billson|title=Anne Billson - Literature|website=literature.britishcouncil.org|access-date=31 July 2019}} The Coming Thing (2017) and The Half Man (2019). In 2019, she self-published a fantasy novel, Blood Pearl.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} Granta named Billson one of the "Best Young British Novelists" in 1993.

Billson was the film critic of The Sunday Telegraph (1992–2001), The Sunday Correspondent (1989-1990), and Today (1986). She has written film reviews for Time Out, Tatler (1989–90), and the New Statesman & Society (1991–92).{{cite web|url=https://multiglom.com/about/|title=About|work=Multiglom|access-date=9 August 2019}} Billson has written several volumes of nonfiction, including monographs on movies such as John Carpenter's The Thing and Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In. Her 2017 book Cats on Film claims to be "the definitive work of feline film scholarship."{{Cite web|url=https://catsonfilm.net/|title=CATS ON FILM|website=CATS ON FILM|language=en|access-date=31 July 2019}}

In 2015, she was chosen by the British Film Institute as one of “25 Female Film Critics Worth Celebrating.”{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/pantheon-one-s-own-25-female-film-critics-worth|title=A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating {{!}} Sight & Sound|website=British Film Institute|language=en|access-date=31 July 2019}} She has lived in London, Tokyo, Paris, Croydon and Brussels, and now lives in Antwerp. She is a programmer and presenter at Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels.