Wren Lennox
Literary · Dark fantasy · Gothic horror
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also writing as Carey Starling
Literary Author · Dark fantasy · Gothic horror
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Forthcoming
The Devil Wears Prada meets Death Becomes Her. A woman at a cutthroat New York fashion magazine decides the only way to get ahead is to literally consume the competition.
Read the deal announcement →On submission
At the end of a mortal man’s life, an immortal woman is asked to tell the truth. A literary horror fantasy of queer grief, sacred monstrosity, and devotion sharpened into violence.
Read the editor’s guide →Drafting
Planning
Artwork made for these books by people far better at drawing than I am. Every piece belongs to the artist who made it. Please support them!
Little instruments I build for writing and worldbuilding. More will appear here in time.
Draw names from hundreds of worlds — fantasy, historical, sci-fi, mythic, real-world and more — or merge worlds and shape every detail. Over 360,000 curated names, and it invents endless more.
Open the Lexicon →Coming soon
An archive of worlds
A place to wander deeper into the worlds behind the books — to meet the characters, learn the lore, and trace the in-story histories that won’t fit between the covers of any one novel.
Hi! I’m Wren — a disabled and queer writer based in Aotearoa New Zealand. I write literary fantasy, gothic fiction, and horror that lives in the emotional and psychological edges of monstrosity, grief, and divinity. My stories tend to centre queer lives and feminine rage, using speculative frameworks to wrestle with real-world systems of violence.
I’ve been writing seriously for over a decade now — a path shaped, in no small part, by chronic illness. My prose is lyrical and emotionally driven, drawn from the well of writers like Anne Rice and Brandon Sanderson, and from the music of Fleetwood Mac, A-ha, Bilmuri, and Paramore.
My most recently completed manuscript is Mariota, a gothic literary fantasy currently out on submission. Whatever I’m drafting next will almost certainly involve a woman who shouldn’t be loved and is anyway.
When I’m not writing, you’ll usually find me listening to music, daydreaming about cowboys, or crying over both at once. I’m an Aries — make of that what you will.
Represented by Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency
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All inquiries — rights, press, interviews, events, and considered correspondence — are kindly directed through my literary agent.
Literary representation
Jenna Satterthwaite
Literary agent · Storm Literary Agency
For all rights, foreign sales, film & television, translations, press & interview requests, event inquiries, and other matters of literary business.
Inquire via Storm LiteraryFor readers and the curious. All business kindly through Jenna.
