| Nick Csizmadia was born in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1966, the youngest of two brothers raised in Melvindale, a small suburb of Detroit. He attended Melvindale High with the literary genius, Uriah Hamilton, who sent poems to Allen Ginsberg and received personal praise from Ginsberg one evening from the Nuropa Institute in Colorado via telephone. This prophetic event sparked Csizmadia's interest in writing. He created his first story, "A Suicidal Mind", in 1980; his first poem, "The New Beginning", in 1981 and has steadily been spitting words ever since. He joined the Army in 1983 immediately after graduation and spent two years in Germany as a track vehicle mechanic, beginning the inner searching that would continue to haunt his poems, stories and essays. Csizmadia's first chapbook, "Six Years Today", appeared in 1987, but it was "Survival Has Its Reflexes", published one year later, that paved his departure from iambic meter and conventional rhyme where most of his earlier work was confined. He was the most notorious and best-known philosopher and tapdancer in his bedroom at home where other books followed his lead, among them "The Fisherman's Daughter" and "Seasonal Beast". Csizmadia considers them all to be time capsule fodder. "I am relieved in my own image," he wrote. "I am more that I could ever ask to borrow...unless the topless dancer sunbathing next-door comes over to borrow my hose. Then we'll see what can be arranged." Csizmadia has published work in anthologies and small-press mags and on the internet. He has received honorable mention from Iliad Press and was interviewed by the Lima News in November of 1999. His first novel is due to be finished when he stops daydreaming about Heather Graham and actually goes back to typing it. He says it will be a book about "...alcoholism and sexual addiction and taking God out for a lapdance at the Par-Three but picking up the tab this time." |