ABOUT

Wren Valentino is an actor, author, entrepreneur, film producer, movie critic, and workshop instructor. The bestselling author of twenty-one novels, he writes across multiple genres, including romance, thriller, young adult, and horror. To date, Wren has written more than seventy stage plays produced in twelve countries and three languages, with eight of his original screenplays and seven stage plays adapted for the screen.

Wren is the foudning CEO of Blue Dasher Productions, a multifaceted creative company dedicated to empowering writers, celebrating storytelling, producing innovative films and television, and championing the transformative power of the arts.

As a film producer, he has helped bring more than one hundred independent movies to the screen, including A Beast in the Manor, Dark Feast, Ever After, The Farmhouse Murders, Hollow Lake, I Feel Fine, Shredded, A Soldier’s Descent, and many more.

As an actor, Wren has appeared in over forty films, with credits that include Amityverse, Desert Fiends 2, Four Nights in Fear Forest, Friday the 13th: Blood Loss, Gobblefoot, The Last Sleepover, Night of the Strangers, Paula Takes the Stage, Shadows of the Night, Snow Falling on Pumpkins, Two Truths and a Lie, and Venus Die-Trap. He will next appear as newscaster Braydon Eisner in Midnight Maniac, alongside horror icon Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp).

His bestselling novels include Accidents Never Happen, Back Strokes, The Everlasting Gift, Fast Beat, Fifty Yards and Holding, The Jetsetters, Love in the Shadows, Mesmerized, Stronger Than This, Swimming to Chicago, and Wonder Land (Blue Dasher Press). He is also the author of the novelettes Miss Nothing, Riding with James Dean, and Snap Shot, and short stories such as I Think We’re Alone Now, One Kiss From Mr. Christmas, Make It ’til Dawn, Bells and Spells, Pumpkin Love Charm, Slicker, Warming Up, and Just Forget the World.

Wren’s poetry collections include Crimes Against My Nature, In the Language of Lust, Love and Detours, Souvenir Boys, and Walking in the Underground. His literary work has appeared in Atomic Flyswatter (Long Shot Books), The Best 10-Minute Plays (Smith & Kraus), Disquiet Arts, Halfway Down the Stairs, Powders Press, Regency Reflections (Wingless Dreamer), and Wicked Gay Ways, among others. His essays have been featured in several Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies.

An educator for more than twenty years, Wren is the founder and instructor of Workshops with Wren, a series of virtual writing workshops designed for writers of all experience levels, genres, and forms.

As curator of Fantastic Classics, he writes critical essays on films across all genres and eras of cinema, with a particular focus on film noir.

Wren received a Pushcart Prize nomination for his poem Cherry Drop and was named an international finalist in the Jane Austen Writing Contest for his short story Home. His award-winning screenplays have been recognized at festivals worldwide, including the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Chicago Horror Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Awards, Omaha Film Festival, and Scream Queen Film Festival.

His original scripts have also placed in major competitions, such as the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards, ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, ScreenCraft Feature Competition, and WeScreenplay Shorts Contest.

For the pilot episode of his original television series Her Other Life, Wren received first prize in the Fade In Awards TV Pilot/Web Series Competition and Best TV Pilot Screenplay at the Melbourne International Screenplay Awards (MISA). The pilot also earned honors from the Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards and Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Contest. The series follows two teenage sisters who suspect their bipolar mother led a secret life—and that her death may not have been what it seemed.

Wren graduated with honors from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and English, earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, and completed the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA.

He is a proud member of Contemporary Romance Writers, the International Screenwriters’ Association, Rainbow Romance Writers, and the Romance Writers of America, which honored him with a Volunteer Service Award.

In addition to being an actor and writer, Wren is an adult content creator and body-positive storyteller whose work centers chubby admirers, authentic sensuality, and self-confidence at every size. Learn more here.

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