Wren Lennox

Hi! I’m Wren—a queer, disabled writer living in a small corner of Aotearoa New Zealand, surrounded by kiwifruit orchards, birds, damp grass, and far too many things I want to pick up and inspect.

I write literary fantasy, gothic fiction, and the gory, unwell kind of horror with a literary streak it can’t quite hide. My work tends to circle monstrosity, grief, divinity, queer lives, feminine rage, and the strange, difficult business of living in a human body. I like women who are frightening, furious, complicated, or probably shouldn’t be loved and are anyway.

A lot of my writing is shaped by disability and by my fascination with bodies: what they endure, what other people expect from them, what happens when they stop behaving the way they’re supposed to, and what else a human body can be made to do.

When I’m not writing, I’m usually reading, making things, collecting bugs and bones, wandering around looking for mushrooms, or doting on my pigeon, Sora. My desk faces a garden full of birds, with the orchards going on behind it, which is ideal except for the fact that I’m very easily distracted by birds.

I also write horror as Carey Starling. Mostly, I write books, love pigeons, collect dead things, and think about bodies too much.

Represented by Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency