1783–1811) was a prolific author of popular novels active during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Anna Maria Wight was the daughter of a coal merchant in Essex; little more is known of her early life or antecedents.

She married a man named Cox who died and left her with four children and financially dependent on relatives.

Anna Maria Mackenzie provides the bibliographer with a challenge, as she published anonymously, as well as under a pseudonym, and also under each of her three married names.

Her first major work, Burton Wood (1783), was a sentimental epistolary novel; many of her works contained Gothic and sensational elements; later she turned to historical fiction with Monmouth (1790); Danish Massacre (1791), set in early medieval times; and Mysteries Elucidated (1795), set in the fourteenth century.