Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, but a West Coast girl at heart, Ren has been a photographer for ten years, working with individuals, businesses, and publications all over the country.

She received a BFA in Photography in 2010 from the Memphis College of Art, and an MFA in Multidisciplinary Art from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2013. (She may have married a cardboard cutout for her thesis project.)

She shot her first roll of film on a Pentax K1000 she bought at a thrift store when she was 15 years old, and shooting film will always be her favorite.

Ren considers herself a visual crusader, fiction junkie, and media literacy advocate who loves the art of storytelling in all its forms and hates talking about herself in the third person.