Anne Bridges is the former co-director of the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project at the University of Tennessee Libraries. Now retired and living in Oregon, she was the project founder and bibliographer for the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Collection. Her publications include Terra Incognita: An Annotated Bibliography of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1544-1934; The Terra Incognita Reader: Early Writings on the Great Smoky Mountains; and two edited books by Paul Adams. In 2016, she was recognized by Smokies Life as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the History of the Great Smoky Mountains.