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Julia Rust is a writer and teaching artist from the Hudson River valley of New York. She is the author of two novels, Angel Falls, from YAP Books/Haverhill House Publications, winner of the 2024 Whippporwill Prize for Rural Teen Fiction, and Saving Thornwood, due out from YAP Books in July, 2025, both co-written with David Surface. Her stories have appeared in Nightscript, Bull and Cross, The Cortland Review, Uncertainties III, and Many Mountains Moving.
David Surface is the author of two collections of short fiction, Terrible Things, published by Black Shuck Books, and These Things That Walk Behind Me from Lethe Press. He is co-author with Julia Rust of Angel Falls, a crossover/YA novel from YAP Books/Haverhill House Publications. A second novel, Saving Thornwood, also written with Julia Rust, is due out from YAP Books in July, 2025. David’s stories have been published in many genre and literary publications, and have been selected twice by Ellen Datlow for Best New Horror of the Year.
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