Vicky Brago-Mitchell (born September 30, 1946, in Yakima, Washington State) is an American digital artist and photographer. In 1970, Brago-Mitchell obtained a bachelor's degree in Spanish language and literature from Stanford University. She moved to Japan, where she worked as a photographer and translator. In 1976 she returned to the US, attending graduate school in Romance Languages and Linguistics at UCLA and California State University, Fullerton, then working as a teacher. Brago-Mitchell's credits as a photographer include all the pictures for a Japanese-language gardening book of plants cultivated in Japan, published by Shobunsha, Tokyo, 1975. In 1992 she married American composer John Mitchell. Vicky Brago-Mitchell