Mike Lawson is from Southern California and now lives in the Arizona desert. He loves caffeine, attention, Photoshop, progressive politics, Rufus Wainwright, seeing results, eating entirely too fast, Joan Didion, and immediately knowing the answers to people's questions.

He hates writing in the third person, charlie horses, guns, sushi, realizing it's already Sunday, dust, sandwiches with the crust cut off, commercials, social injustice, and Celine Dion.