Biography

Emily Rubin’s debut novel, Stalina (2011 HMH/Mariner Books), was a selection in the Amazon Debut Novel Award Contest. She is a recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writer Award, two NYSCA Literary Artists Fellowships, the Berkshire Taconic Artists Fund, a finalist in the International Literary Awards, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Excerpts from Solo Girl, a novel based on her experiences homesteading a building in the East Village of Manhattan, have appeared in the Ghost City Review, Good Works Review, IceFlo Press, and Litbreak Magazine. Essays from Adventures with a 100-Year-Old Mother: Inventing a Life, reflections on her relationship with her mother who lived to 103, have been published by Oldster Magazine, Humans of the World, and Sad Girl Diaries. Other fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in the Red Rock Review, Confrontation, NY Observer, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Smart Set, HAPPY, and All the Restaurants in New York by John Donohue. Essays about her two-time journey with breast cancer have been published in Cancer Health Magazine and Next Avenue. She has a BA from Bard College and MFA in creative writing from the Writer’s Foundry of St. Joseph’s University. Rubin runs the Write Treatment Workshops, creative writing and journaling workshops for adults affected by cancer for Mount Sinai Hospitals and upstate New York cancer centers through the NY Oncology and Hematology Foundation. She has lectured and taught fiction at Bard College, Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Program, and the MA in Public Health Program at Washington University, St. Louis. She lives and writes from her home in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their dog, Lucinda.