Mighty Mike McGee is a well-traveled "stand-up poet" and storyteller from San José, California. He is the first to win both the 2003 National Poetry Slam Individual Grand Championship, and the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Grand Championship in the poetry slam world. Since 2002, he has toured very extensively throughout United States, Canada, and Europe. McGee has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, CBC Radio and Television, and NPR's Snap Judgment. He was appointed Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) for 2018 & 2019. McGee's first collection of humor and poetry, In Search of Midnight, was published by Write Bloody.