Ivy Anderson (they/she) and Devon Angus (he/him) are San Francisco–based writers, historians, and filmmakers. Their book, Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute (Heyday, 2016) won the California Historical Society’s 2015 Book Award. Their filmic adaptation, "Maiden Lane," was awarded a Berkeley Film Foundation Grant and as of early 2026 is in post-production. Anderson's experimental films have been screened at several festivals, and Anderson was awarded the Dina Ciraulo Experimental Film Scholarship in 2025. Angus has organized and published oral histories of immigrants in New York's Catskills region. He received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for his show Songs and Stories of Old New York.