C.B. Shiepe writes stories of recognition. His work begins with a conviction he has carried since his own years of illness and loss: that what we go through and what is moving through us are not two different things - that humanity and divinity have always been dwelling together in the same water, whether anyone was paying attention or not. What suffering can obscure, it cannot erase - and his stories exist to help people recognize that what they thought was purely human struggle has always contained something else. Not beyond the suffering. Within it. His stories begin with people who have become estranged from themselves.

They unfold through faithful witnesses, unexpected encounters, and ordinary moments that turn out to contain more than they appeared to - until the deepest truth is finally recognized. Not discovered for the first time. Remembered. Shiepe is the award-winning author of Cliff Falls, the best-selling independently published novel in the history of Vroman's Bookstore. The novel was selected as the City of Arcadia's One Community, One Book, adapted into an Audie Award-nominated audiobook narrated by Tony Award winner Santino Fontana, and is currently in development as a feature film. His companion books, The Last Box - a memoir - and The Last Mission - a novel - continue that same exploration from two different directions. The memoir moves outward: an interior life reaching toward connection. The novel moves inward: an exterior journey revealing what was always present beneath it.

Read together, they become a conversation between lived experience and imagination, circling the same truth from different banks of the same river. Whether speaking, writing memoir, or telling stories through fiction, Shiepe walks beside the reader rather than ahead of them - holding a lantern, not a map. His work doesn't explain grace. It notices it. And in the noticing, invites the reader to begin noticing it too. He lives in Southern California.