Judy Ryan Hall is a writer and itinerant teacher of writing who has lived in such far flung places as Iceland, Sudan, and New Jersey. She currently lives with her youngest daughter, Samantha, on whom Max Runs is based, and her husband, Anson Pope, in Montclair, NJ. No one in her family approaches normalcy. Although Judy has been published in many journals and anthologies, Max Runs is her debut novel.