Michael Grothaus is a journalist who spent years researching sex trafficking, using his experiences as a springboard for his debut novel Epiphany Jones. As a writer at Fast Company, Michael tells the stories about tech, creativity, personal health, the effects of mass media on our psyches, and just plain mysterious stuff. For VICE, he tells stories about cultures, subcultures, sex, and pornography and has also done immersion journalism at geopolitical events including the Hong Kong protests against Beijing in 2014. As a contributing writer to The Guardian and Know Your Mobile, a features writer for Engadget, and the former European Editor for AOL's popular tech news site TUAW, Michael regularly writes about all things mobile. He also contributes to the online men's lifestyle magazine, Asylum, is a former screenwriter, and the author of a dozen 'tech' books, published by Pearson and Apress. American-born, Michael now lives in London.