C. R. Sturgill, a Transportation Manager by day and writer by night, lives in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. He is married, with one son who currently attends college at U.C. Berkeley.

Dreams from the Heart: Tales of Hope & Love—a collection of short stories exploring romance, love, and family—was his first book and dedicated to his mother, and biggest supporter, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2012. He donates all the proceeds from that book to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

He has also published Sea of Hearts, a young adult historical romance novel, and Blood Tides, a historical fiction novel. While he is genre agnostic, he seeks to write books that entertain as well as explore deeper themes of life, love, and family.