Jon Mitchell has been writing stories, singing songs, and drawing pictures ever since he was little. Since his parents brought home their first Mac, he's had a thing for computers. He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and he graduated from Brown University in 2009, completing an independent concentration in Music & Mind. Mitchell was a tech reporter for ReadWrite and other online publications, but he left in 2013 to pursue more personal projects. He released Portal, his first record, in Feburary 2014. Now he's the publisher at Burning Man. His first book, In Real Life Searching for Connection in High-Tech Times, was published by Parallax Press on February 10, 2015.