Thomas StolmerTom Stolmar was born in 1961 and grew up downriver from Detroit. In 1977 he moved to Düsseldorf, West Germany, returning to the U.S. to study at Maryland Institute College of Art. He then fell in love and skipped off to San Francisco. He became notorous with the Post-Beat Generation poets known as Babarians, the crazed denizens of the Café Babar. In 1994, Stolmar went on to receive his B.A. in Poetics at New College Of California. His two previous books of poetry are Go Figure and Tsunami. His novel in progress is Paper Jaguar. In 1991 he met a fair Hungarian kislány kislány with whom he shared a kindred relation as his father's family was also of Magyar descent. Stolmar continues to reside in San Francisco, splitting his time between there and his wife's more peaceful home just outside Budapest. Read More Read Less