About the Author

Rex Wiig
Author • Engineer • Founder of Subsurface Press

Rex Wiig is an engineer turned author who has spent a lifetime studying systems — mechanical, biological, and human. His career began deep below the surface, serving six years aboard Navy submarines, where precision and pressure became daily teachers. Later, at Rockwell and Boeing, he worked on international submarine and missile programs before founding Celeris Systems, a technology firm dedicated to aerospace innovation with multiple technology patents.

Then, life took him into a different kind of pressure test. After developing autoimmune atrophic gastritis and pernicious anemia, he turned his analytical mind inward — decoding the body’s feedback loops the way he once decoded control systems. What began as survival became discovery: an exploration of how consciousness, biology, and resilience intertwine.

Through Subsurface Press, Rex now writes at the intersection of science and story. His forthcoming works — Thank God for Oxes, A Life Jolted, Beyond the Grid, The Current, and Lessons from Below — weave engineering precision with lived experience, translating complex systems into human insight.

He likes to say he’s developing “a new Type B skin” — though it still doesn’t quite fit. (“And yes,” he adds, “I know you can’t misspell a letter B. I asked anyway.”)

Rex lives surrounded by nature, stories, and the occasional ox — grateful for the strange way life’s hardest failures can become its greatest teachers.