Wren Valentino

Wren Valentino is a writer, film producer, voice actor, and writing workshop instructor. As a bestselling author, Wren writes in multiple genres, primarily romance, thriller, young adult, and horror. To date, he has written more than seventy stage plays that have been performed in twelve countries in three languages. As a film producer, he has helped bring more than eighty independent movies to the screen. As an actor, his voice can be heard in twenty-one horror films. To date, eight of his original screenplays have been adapted into films. His award-winning scripts have received recognition at film festivals around the world including the Beverly Hills Film Festival, the Chicago Horror Film Awards, the Los Angeles Film Awards, the Omaha Film Festival, and the Scream Queen Film Festival. His original scripts have placed in several screenwriting competitions including the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards, FinalDraft's Big Break Screenwriting Contetest, the ISA Fast Track Fellowship, the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, the Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, the ScreenCraft Feature Competition, and the WeScreenplay Shorts Contest. He is the author of the novels Fast Beat, Gollan Grove, Motel Queen, and Sophomore (Blue Dasher Press), the novelettes Miss Nothing and Snap Shot, and several short stories including the award-winning Halloween romance Pumpkin Love Charm, the holiday love story Warming Up, and the cozy mystery Just a Little Haunted. His literary work has appeared in Atomic Flyswatter (Long Shot Books), Disquiet Arts, Halfway Down the Stairs, Powders Press, Regency Reflections (Wingless Dreamer), and Wicked Gay Ways. He received a Pushcart Prize nomination for his poem Cherry Drop. For his short story Home, Wren was named an international finalist in the Jane Austen Writing Contest. Wren graduated with honors from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and English. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. He is a graduate of the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA. He has been an educator for twenty years. He is the founder and instructor of Workshops with Wren, a series of virtual writing workshops created for writers of all levels of experience, genres, and form. As a proud member of Contemporary Romance Writers, Wren serves as the elected VP of Programs. He is also an active member of Disney's D23, the International Screenwriters' Association (ISA), and the Romance Writers of America, who presented him with a 2024 Volunteer Service Award. He lives in Sacramento, California.