Adam Perry was born in Pittsburgh, PA on August 20, 1980 and began playing in local bands at the city's punk clubs as a teenager. After discovering Charles Bukowski, Arthur Rimbaud and Allen Ginsberg in high school Adam started writing poetry (often using the Burroughs-Gysin cut-up method) while attending both West Virginia University and the University of Pittsburgh ("Pitt") and working as a contributing music writer for In Pittsburgh Weekly and freelancing for various national publications. At 19, Adam began studying poetry at Pitt under Toi Derricote and Lynn Emanuel, being mentored from afar by Pacific Northwestern beat/hippie literary icon Charles Potts and Steve Silberman (Wired Magazine writer and former assistant to Ginsberg) and publishing poems in small magazines around the United States and Britain and at 20 had his first book of poems ("No One Knows") published by Denner Press in Santa Rosa, CA. After the events of September 11th and the death of his grandmother, Adam dropped out of school at 21 to move to San Francisco, becoming the first member of his family to live outside of western Pennsylvania, and stopped submitting his poems altogether. He currently lives in the Mission District of San Francisco and has continued writing many poems, wrote two short novels shortly after arriving in California, works as a full-time teacher at an Italian-immersion pre-school in the city, and plays the drums in an indie-rock band called The Love X Nowhere (www.thelovexnowhere.com).