Liz Lamere was Alan Vega's wife and long-term creative collaborator. They met in 1985 when she was a corporate lawyer at a major Wall Street firm and played drums in a punk band, SSNUB. She co-wrote, co-produced, and recorded numerous songs with Vega. Now, she spearheads the ongoing release of recordings from the "Vega Vault," a vast library of unreleased albums, songs, and sound recordings. She oversees the Vega archives of works on paper, extensive writings of lyrics, poetry and fine art Vega created until his passing in 2016.

Laura Davis-Chanin is the author of The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer's Life with Bowie, Blondie and the '70s Rock Scene, which was on Billboard's top ten music books of 2018 and won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Writing. She is also the co-author of I Am Michael Alago.