Malcolm Mitchell is the husband of Kelly Mitchell and the father of two early teenage boys, Maxwell, and Miles. He is a follower of Jesus, an Elementary School Literacy Teacher, and has freelanced as a youth curriculum developer and writer. He is native to and currently resides in Southern California, though he has lived in, or dwelled among each of the major cities along the west coast of the US. His passion for self-expression through writing developed early in life and has been honed into poetry since the early 2000s. His hobbies include bike rides at the beach, summer youth camp counseling, writing, performing spoken word at local community venues, and facilitating what he calls SWAP sessions. This is the interplay between the shared, artistic expressions of singers, writers, actors, and poets and the formation of faith, goodwill, and community building.