Joad Raymond Wren is a Welsh writer, now based in London and Folkestone. He grew up in Cardiff, was educated at the University of East Anglia and Oxford University, and taught at the Universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, East Anglia, and Queen Mary, University of London. He held visiting posts in Florence, Granada and Paris. He departed academic life in 2022 in order to write full time. Under the name Joad Raymond he has published twelve scholarly books, as Joad R Wren he has written one novel, All the Colours You Cannot Name. He has two other works of non-fiction in press.
