Padraic Maher Cepek was born in Minot, ND and lives in Chicago. He is the author of The Shape of the Silence, a collection of short stories and poems that explores childhood, grief, and the fragile intersections of memory and silence, and They’re Still Writing Me, a metafictional work in which characters begin to rewrite the life of their creator.

His writing combines elements of magical realism, hauntology, and self-aware narrative, drawing on both personal experience and literary tradition.

At the heart of his writing lies a belief that stories are living, unfinished conversations between writer, reader, and character—always shifting, always inviting new meaning.