Jonah Eller-Isaacs is a writer and artist living in Nashville with his wife, Kathryn Wilkening, a craft artist and the dance programs supervisor for the Nashville Metro Parks & Recreation Department, and their puppy, Rosie Pants. He previously spent six months in Africa in 2004 researching musical responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and worked for the Red Hot Organization (redhot.org), a nonprofit that produces music compilations to benefit international efforts to fight HIV/AIDS.