[2] He is also the writer and producer of the Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian, a children's science fiction podcast.
[4] Jonathan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Messinger was also the editor of THISisGRAND, a web magazine chronicling true stories on Chicago's public transit.
[6] He has toured extensively in Canada and the United States, and is the creator and host of The Dollar Store Reading Series, a successful monthly show where he hands out items purchased for a dollar to writers and comedians, who then use the item as inspiration for stories.
[12] He has written four books based on his Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian podcast, which is also being adapted as a TV movie.