Alex Stefansson was born in 1984 in Seattle, Washington. He grew up in the suburbs and later attended Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, where he accumulated a large amount of debt and also met his wife. He enjoys witnessing wardrobe malfunctions, eating hot dogs, and spending quality time with his wife, two young sons, and neurotic cat. His favorite books are The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina, and The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.