Tony Stinkmetal is a writer and movie maker from Manhattan. He premiered his play/ installation SlashR, at The Gene Frankel Theatre in September. Tony is a founding member of the Post- Apocalyst art movement (heavily influenced by The Availabists). Pretty much all his stories are autobiographical and take place in the present after the end of the world. After working video for the Turning tour with Charles Atlas and Anohni he started keeping a journal, The Turner Diaries. He Has been in Berlin writing a sequel, SlashR 2020 which opens in January.

Valerie Ellis has an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Enclitic, The Falls, the Progressive and In These Times, among others. She has read at the Cornelia Street Cafe and her plays have been produced and/or workshopped at Red Eye Collaboration, Naked Angels, the American Place Theater and the American Repertory Theater for Advanced Theatre Training.