Bedford was born in Western Australia of the Djaru[1] and Gija people[2] on her father's side and Irish and English on her mother's.
Her maternal grandmother, Valda Osborn, who loved Tolkien and Charles Dickens was also a great influence in her choice of writing as a career.
[4] She spent some time shadowing Sally Riley, as head of Indigenous at the ABC, working on Redfern Now in 2012 to 2013, which led to her going to UTS to earn her Master's in Creative Writing.
[4] She was given her "big break" in being invited to join the writing team for Bunya Productions' 2018 TV series Mystery Road as a note-taker, at the suggestion of Penny Smallacombe, head of Indigenous at Screen Australia.
[5] In 2019, Bedford won a Balnaves Fellowship to develop her own play with Belvoir Theatre, Cursed!, which was inspired by her family gathering in Geraldton when her grandmother (Valda Osborn[3]) was dying.
The other participants were Ngaire Pigram, Debbie Carmody, Kelli Cross, Karla Hart, Chantelle Murray, Jub Clerc, and Mitch Torres.
[16] She is a co-founder of the Indigenous arts group, the Cope St Collective,[4] and a founder member of the Australian Writers' Guild's Diversity and Inclusion Action Committee, along with Benjamin Law and others.