Willie Anne Wright, a native and current resident of Richmond, Virginia, has a BS in Psychology from The College of William and Mary and a MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. She also studied photography at Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine; Visual Studies Workshops, Rochester, New York; and VCU.

Wright's paintings, serigraphs, and drawings were exhibited in juried and invitational shows until 1972 when her focus shifted to pinhole photography as her primary creative medium. Since then her pinhole photographs have been exhibited internationally and are in private and public collections. Wright's work has been recognized in many books and periodicals.

Among the institutions that have acquired her pinhole work are the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia; the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida; the High Museum, Atlanta Georgia; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia; University of Maine, Bangor, Maine and the University of New Hampshire, Dublin, New Hampshire.