Mitchell Toy grew up in Melbourne where his passion and love for the city inspired him to self-publish his first children's book, The Midnight Tram. The book has now been reborn with Five Mile as The Midnight City. Mitchell studied Art History at Oxford, his work has been twice exhibited in the Fezilla Studio Gallery in Prahran and two of his paintings hang in Canberra's Parliament House. Mitchell has worked as a cartoonist and court sketch artist, among other roles, for the Herald Sun newspaper for almost ten years.