— 2026 IBPA BOOK AWARD WINNER —
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— 2026 IBPA Award Winner & National Indie Excellence Award Finalist —
"Readers who may have thought Catcher in the Rye and other coming-of-age stories held wry humor along with insights will find these classics must take a step back for contemporary authors such Luke Stoffel."
— Midwest Book Review (Reviewers Choice!)
About Luke Stoffel
Luke Stoffel's writing has appeared in Fortune Magazine. He is currently turning one human life into a seven-book work of dimensional physics: the same life told seven times, each in a form that can't exist in any of the others. The eighth dimension is a hand-painted tarot deck.
He is a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award-winning author and a National Indie Excellence Awards finalist, with a best-selling series praised by Kirkus and a debut scored 9.5/10 by Publishers Weekly BookLife. His Pop Art Tarot is published by Rockpool Publishing and will be distributed worldwide.
He is also a GLAAD-honored painter and photographer. His work has appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, and on Bravo; been commissioned by the Ralph Lauren family and the Hong Kong Ballet; and been shown by the American Foundation for AIDS Research and the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
As a creative director he worked with Mozilla's Builders program to "fix the internet" and directed campaigns for the U.S. Open, Coca-Cola, and Whole Foods. He speaks on AI and creative practice, and on building a career by hacking the systems that were never designed to let you in.
The ways in which this world has created beauty through devotion to the unknown is what inspires me the most. I am fascinated by society’s interpretations of God, and how we infuse dance, song, and ritual with such profound meaning, even for something or someone intangible. My goal is to convey these ideas through visual art. Not only do I strive to interpret the cultural significance of various religions and traditions, but I also aim to challenge viewers to question the very essence of “who or what is God?” I’m less interested in making work that is purely commercial, and more interested in opening a dialogue.
Lucas Stoffel
Contemporary Artist / Painter
What Inspires You?
Travel Photography
Twenty years of wandering through Asia, Europe, and beyond — not as a tourist, but as a witness. These photographs trace the moments between monuments: temple valleys at dawn, night markets in motion, the quiet geometry of streets that don't know they're beautiful. The same eye that paints geishas and monks, the same restlessness that wrote seven books.
Photography Gallery
