Nikola Pepera, the last of the Haight Ashbury Butterflies. A former peach farmer and a former lithium dealer. A degenerate beatnik who once smoked tree moss. A notorious recluse who hid her surrealist paintings of psychedelic prostitutes and acid poetry under her bed until last summer, 2023. After hitchhiking her way down the Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Cruz she landed in Hollywood around the corner from Jim Morrison's last American home. She is the singer and lyricist of her supergroupe Chippy & Thee Psychedelic Dirtbags.
Lay Down & Get Lost is her first book.
