Mike Mollett has worked primarily under-ground: producing a citywide DADA festival in the early 80's punk L. A.; co-directing ZTZU, "the ugliest gallery in L.A.", in the mid-80's; self-published nearly 50 books of poetry, short stories, art, mail-art and letters; his (AAV) alternative art vehicle with "Questions of The Week" was exhibited & considered a book; as co-host at a sleazy Hollywood bar, CLUB BLAB was "the best open mic"- the L.A. Weekly, '89. Mollett is now leader/ performer with the non-verbal improvisational group The L. A. Mudpeople. Find them: The National Geographic (June, 1992) & their own site HERE. He is currently developing & teaching a unique extended communication/ performing arts workshop as an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles.

After the Break In is the first long text collaboration between the authors whose friendship, performance & poetry exploration dates to pre-slam 1985. As founding members of two influential Los Angeles performance/poetry groups the Lost Tribe (1985 -1988) & the Carma Bums (1988-1996), they performed/ read in over 150 venues, toured the Southwest & West coast of the USA into Canada, & created a "Cyber Tour of Words" on the Net in 1996 which lived until their break-up. Carma Bums' adventures & writing is chronicled in Twisted Cadillac: A Spoken Work Odyssey (Sacred Beverage Press, 1996). A feature length documentary Luxurious Tigers of Obnoxious Agreement: The Carma Bums Film was released in 1998.

Mike Mollett can be reached at inmate@zippnet.net.