Jonathan Zwickel lives and writes in Seattle. Over the course of a 25-year career, his journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, SPIN and elsewhere (support local journalism!). He has provided executive ghostwriting and communications strategy for T-Mobile, Microsoft, the Bezos Family Foundation, Sub Pop Records and others. He's the creator of the 2024 NPR podcast Let the Kids Dance!, a top-10 Apple Podcast series, and author of Beastie Boys: A Musical Biography, published by Greenwood Press in 2012.