William S. Burroughs was an influential writer, artist, and countercultural figure. Burroughs was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Harvard.

While living in New York in the mid-1940s, he befriended a younger group of aspiring writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who would come to be known as the Beats. Burroughs's fiction includes Junkie (as William Lee, 1953), Naked Lunch (1959), The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket that Exploded (1962), Nova Express (1964), The Wild Boys (1971), and Cities of the Red Night (1981).

Burroughs' writing is recognized for its technical experimentation (including the use of the cut-up method) and its explicit treatment of themes related to drugs, sexuality, and counterculture. After having spent time in Mexico City, Paris, Tangiers, London, and New York City, Burroughs moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 1981, where he resided until his death on August 2, 1997.

Patrick Clement is a film maker and newspaper editor originally from Boston, Massachusetts. He spent five years in Los Angeles, California working in film and television production, graduating in 2011 from Los Angeles Valley College with an associates degree in film directing.

That same year Clement moved to Greensburg, Kiowa County, Kansas, where he became the editor for the Kiowa County Signal newspaper. He had been in Greensburg previously as part of a documentary production team in 2007, after the Greensburg tornado, with the documentary focusing on rebuilding the town. Clement won several awards from the Kansas Press Association for his graphic design, feature writing, and photography work with the newspaper.

Clement moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 2013 to enroll in the University of Kansas' Film and Media Studies program, from which he graduated in 2015. Later that same year he enrolled in Columbia University's screenwriting/directing MFA program.

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