Mike Snell lives in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri with his wife, a family law attorney, and their two children, Charlie and Oscar. Snell, who has been working postproduction and marketing for 20 years, owns Blue Wall Design, a small digital video postproduction facility. He has made short personal moving picture pieces since college. Grace Never Leaves marks his first try at reaching a larger audience. His other shorts have tended to be personal reflections on creativity or aspects of popular culture.