Bridget Collins

{{Short description|British author of adult and young adult fiction}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Bridget Collins

| image = Bridget Collins 20191205.jpg

| caption = Collins in 2019

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1981}}

| birth_place = Kent, England

| alma_mater = King's College, Cambridge, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

| occupation = Author

| years_active = 2008-present

| notable_works = The Traitor Game, The Binding, The Betrayals

}}

Bridget Rose Collins{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=N2JVNkCYG2Dhq6XlhKP3tg&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=6 August 2023|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} (born 1981) is a British author of adult and young adult fiction.

Collins was born in 1981 in Kent, England. She earned a degree in English at King's College, Cambridge, then trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and started her first novel when she was not working.

She has written seven young adult titles as B. R. Collins.{{cite web |title=Bridget Collins |url=https://www.waterstones.com/author/bridget-collins/3180840 |website=Waterstones |access-date=29 November 2022}} Her first, The Traitor Game, won the 2009 Branford Boase Award.

Her first adult novel was published in 2019, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.