Jeff Stilwell

Jeff Stilwell excels at the unexpected. Not content with his Midwestern roots, he found ways on the cheap to explore the wider world including selling gummy bears in high school to visit the Alps of central Europe. To pay for college, he worked a slime line as a head chopper in the clammy tundra of Alaska.

His thirst for adventure next took him to Asia where he studied Asian philosophy and the martial arts while exploring exotic locales including the Himalayas and the lands of Lord Jim, even surviving a squall in the Gulf of Siam.

His years in Asia deeply influenced his lifelong search for meaning, culminating later in his magnum opus, "Here and Now: A Whimsical Take On God." In this illustrated work, his adorable cartoon character Thrashin’ Jack leads the reader on the skateboard journey of humanity’s creation of God. Readers find Here and Now “simple yet profound” and “something that can be read in minutes, and thought about for a lifetime.”

For those readers wanting a bit more, Stilwell completed a companion volume called "Living Here and Now: A Practical Guide To Finding Meaning."

Stilwell's storytelling also produced fifteen plays and two novels. He currently writes stories for a series of short films starring his precocious feline, Lotus, in the Lotus the Cat Films series.