Julia Rust is a writer and teaching artist from the Hudson River valley in New York. With David Surface, she runs Veterans Writing Workshop, bringing free workshops to U.S. veterans and active duty military in the metro-NYC area. Julia has served on the board of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center. Julia recently was a featured reader for “A Strange and Darksome Night” hosted by Night Time Logic in NYC. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her story "Tall Dark And" written with David Surface was published in the anthology Uncertainties Vol. III, which Ellen Datlow included on her “Recommended” list in Best Horror of the Year for 2019. ANGEL FALLS is a YA Supernatural thriller, co-written with David Surface and published October 2022 by YAP Books, an imprint of Haverhill House Publishing.