Andy Mackk is a writer and poet from Southern California. As a kid, Andy started rapping with his older cousin and younger brother. In the third grade, Andy wrote his first song. He stayed creative throughout his youth, writing sci-fi fan fiction and shooting homemade movies while rapping and making music with his family and friends from school. In the Ninth grade, he started to work on "The Greatest Challenge," an album he worked on throughout his High School years and was released the summer he graduated.

In 2010, he was a part of the JEMS Creative Arts Missions Team and traveled to Japan. In the Summer of 2012, Andy traveled back to Japan for a second time with the JEMS Creative Arts Missions Team. In 2011/2012, Andy released his mixtape "Dumb Down Era" for free online. For the last several years, Andy has been quiet writing novels and planning his next move.