About Me

Chris Wren grew up in the Northern Rivers around Byron Bay where she surfed with just a handful of other girls, who refused to just sit on the beach admiring the boys on their boards.

In her book, “Say My Name”, she exposes the hidden social culture and attitudes towards domestic violence and coercive control, based sadly on lived experience. This was in the day where the cops were called to a “domestic”, looked in the door and drove off, minding their own business. The title of her novel is based on the fact that if our name is not acknowledged in a relationship, we can become objectified, “non-persons”, non-existent.

This is her first novel; she has four other published non-fiction books, including a poetry anthology.

Chris wrote her first book at age ten, with illustrations, on her school teacher father’s old black Remington typewriter.

She now lives within the sound of the sea with her very lovely Hubbie and two indulged rescue cats.