Emily Wren

Romance Audiobook Narrator
+ Voice Actor

Warm. Wry. Intimate. Character-driven.

Emily Wren is an audiobook narrator, voice actor, and lifelong storyteller who believes the best performances begin with curiosity.

A theater kid who never grew out of it, Emily has spent most of her life studying what makes characters tick, why people say one thing when they mean another, and how much can happen in the silence between two lines.

She found a natural home in audiobook narration, where all of those things meet her lifelong love of books and an admittedly excessive appreciation for excellent banter. She is especially drawn to stories with complicated characters, emotional intelligence, sharp dialogue, and relationships that give her something to dig into.

Behind the microphone, Emily is a thoughtful and collaborative creative partner who takes the work seriously without taking herself quite so seriously. She likes clear communication, good questions, strong opinions held loosely, and working with people who care deeply about getting the story right.

She also believes fictional people should make better decisions.
She is grateful they usually don't.

About the Voice

Emily’s natural delivery is warm, intelligent, conversational, and emotionally grounded, with an expressive range that moves easily between dry wit, vulnerability, romantic tension, and high emotional stakes.

Her work is particularly well suited to:

  • contemporary romance

  • romantic comedy

  • romantasy and fantasy romance

  • emotionally complex, character-driven fiction

  • high-heat romance and erotica

  • witty, dialogue-heavy storytelling

  • first-person and deeply internal narration

She brings a strong ear for pacing, vocal distinction, emotional continuity, and the musicality of language, building characters who feel specific without allowing the performance to overpower the story.

Her natural speaking voice sits in a warm mezzo range, with the flexibility to move between intimate, close-mic narration and heightened emotional or comedic moments while maintaining a grounded, conversational feel.

And when the story gets spicy?
She is perfectly comfortable saying that sentence out loud.
Whatever that sentence happens to be.

Listen Up

Every story asks for something different from the voice telling it.

Below you'll find samples showcasing Emily's range across narration, dialogue, character work, emotional tone, and romance performance.

Emily Wren Contemporary Romance
Emily Wren High Heat/Intimate Scene
Emily Wren Romantasy + Irish Dialect
Emily Wren Dialogue: FMC (General American) + MMC (Southern Accent)
Emily Wren English Dialect Sample

Featured Title

Available now wherever audiobooks are sold.
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What People Are Saying:

  • “Emily didn't just narrate Alex—she read the book, understood her, and brought her (and the rest of Changing Trajectory) to life. She even ran the entire production for me: found and scheduled our male narrator, handled contracts, and kept me in the loop on everything. When things went sideways, she came to me with the issue and a plan in the same breath. And she's open to feedback in a way I'm not used to. She takes pride in her work and wants the production to be that good. I absolutely plan on working with her for all of my books in the future.”

    —Kay Hartley, author of Changing Trajectory

  • "Thanks to her extensive experience in both theater and the business community, Emily brings a rare combination of creative instinct, professionalism, and genuine care to every project she touches. She understands not only performance, but the author experience behind bringing a story to audio (the decisions, logistics, and importance of protecting what makes a book feel like your book.) She is thoughtful, a great communicator, reliable, and deeply invested in getting the details right."

    —Sophia Hyde, Author of Unleash Your Favorite Self & Host of the Refuse to Choose podcast

  • "It’s not easy to narrate a great audiobook. It’s certainly not as simple as sitting down with your four-year-old and reading a bedtime story out loud. It takes skill, focus, and a deep understanding of the characters - their personalities and the nuances that make each one unique. It takes creativity to bring those characters to life in a way that feels true to the author’s vision. With her extensive background in theater, Emily is naturally suited to the art of narration. She can create a remarkable range of voices and accents, but more importantly, she gives each character their own personality, emotion, and nuance. And somehow, she makes all of that incredibly difficult work look effortless."

    — Liz, Owner of independent bookstore, A Novel Escape

LET’S GET TECHNICAL

Studio + Tech Specs

Professional-quality remote recording from a dedicated home studio.

Recording Space
WhisperRoom 4' × 4' isolation booth

Microphone
MXL 770 condenser microphone

Interface
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

DAW / Recording
Adobe Audition

Remote Direction
Zoom

File Delivery
Available to publisher, producer, or engineer specifications.

Directed sessions and collaborative workflows welcome.

Training + Professional Affiliations

Great audiobook performance requires more than a good voice. It requires acting, preparation, technical consistency, collaboration, and an understanding of the industry behind the microphone.

Emily brings a lifelong background in theatrical performance to her narration work and continues to develop her craft through professional training, coaching, and audiobook industry education.

Professional Affiliations

  • Audio Publishers Association (APA)

  • Professional Audiobook Narrators Association (PANA)

Performance + Training

  • Lifelong stage performer

  • Mezzo-soprano

  • Voice coaching with Joan Lader

  • Stage performance directed by Tony Award nominees Terrence Mann and Charlotte d'Amboise

  • Ongoing professional development through APA workshops and audiobook narrator education

Production Experience

In addition to narration, Emily has hands-on experience across the audiobook production process, including casting, engineering coordination, pickups, quality control, and shepherding independently produced titles from manuscript to finished audio through her production company, Ember & Ink Creative LLC.

That experience gives her an understanding not only of the performance in the booth, but of the collaborative process required to bring an audiobook successfully to completion.

Let's Tell a Story Together.

Looking for the voice of your heroine?

Emily is available for audiobook narration, solo, dual, duet, and multicast projects, character-driven voice work, and select collaborative productions.

For casting and availability inquiries, please include your title, author, genre, approximate word count, narration format, production timeline, and any available character or performance notes.

Have an audition side? Even better.

For professional inquiries:
emily@emberandinkcreative.com

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