Aquilitz open book

About the Website, the Author, and the Artist

About Aquilitz

Christopher Myers created Aquilitz.com and is the current CEO of Aquilitz LLC. Chris is blessed to be married to Taylor Myers, who assists with the website and provides any and all of the material specific to fine arts.

They have full-time jobs outside of Aquilitz, and their priorities are God, family, and friends – so while Aquilitz is something they long to continue to develop, it’s not always front-and-center. Chris and Taylor are both Christians, creatives, and nerds at heart. They created Aquilitz as a company and website that would be memorable, unique, and be able to communicate their create ideas to the world at large with a goal of transforming the lives of those that stumble across their art, books, and games.

About Chris

Christopher Myers is a professional cybersecurity specialist and considers himself an amateur writer, philosopher, and student of the Bible. Although he’s travelled multiple countries and continents, he is a Hoosier at heart, having grown up just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he currently resides.

Chris is currently the Director of Cybersecurity for the Indiana Air National Guard, and has worked with Information Technology for over a decade in several capacities, from managing social media to software development to producing offensive cyber effects. Chris has a Master of Science in Cybersecurity Risk Management from Indiana University, with a Technology Concentration through the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering.

Chris graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Indiana University over a decade ago and has worked in healthcare (specifically long-term care), the transportation industry, and the military. He has served in the Indiana Air National Guard for over a decade and is currently an officer in the organization. His previous roles include Director of International Programs, Director of Personnel, Deputy Director of International Programs and Chief of Public Affairs in the Indiana National Guard as well as Communications Director for the Indiana Department of Transportation.

During his time as a professional communicator, Chris has (in an official capacity) hosted a multitude of distinguished visitors, including Governors, Mayors, Senators, Representatives, Generals, Foreign Chiefs of Defense, Foreign Ambassadors, the US Secretary of Defense, and US Ambassadors. He has also presented press conferences, open houses, and town halls for the organizations he has worked for.

Growing up as an avid reader of fantasy and science fiction, Chris was influenced heavily by C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael Crichton, Frank Herbert, J. K. Rowling, Jim Butcher, and Katherine Applegate. He also regularly attempts to expand his knowledge with non-fiction and would highly recommend Blessed are the Misfits by Brant Hansen, Making Sense of God by Timothy Keller, The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay.

If you’re curious about why Chris writes, feel free to click the following link: https://aquilitz.com/about-the-author-my-values/. If you would like to contact Chris, you can reach him at myersc9@outlook.com.

About Taylor

Taylor Myers is a professional artist and teacher in Indiana, instructing high school art classes in a public school setting. Early in her life, art began as a hobby and quickly became a deep-dive exploration into how art and artists affect society, the mind, and the spirit. She spent time learning from her grandfather, a professional artist out of Noblesville, Indiana.

She graduated from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis’s (IUPUI’s) Herron School of Art and Design with a degree in Visual Arts Education. As a practicing teacher and professional artist, she has been the project manager for a mural in Arcadia, Indiana with her students and plans to accomplish additional community integrated public art works. She spends her free time learning various new and old art forms, such as 3D printing, oil painting, resin art, wood burning, etc.