Marina Rubin

Marina Rubin was born in Vinnitsa, Ukraine and immigrated to the USA in 1989. Her first chapbook 'Ode to Hotels' (2002) was followed by 'Once' (2004) and 'Logic' (2007). Marina Rubin’s work has appeared in over eighty magazines. She is an associate editor of Mudfish and a 2013 recipient of COJECO Blueprint Fellowship. Her book of flash fiction 'Stealing Cherries' (Manic D Press, 2013) received an Honorable Mention on Heeb Magazine’s list of Best Books of 2014. Her story Good People Make Bad Couples was shortlisted for the 2019 Writers’ HQ Flash Fiction Prize and her story, Jupiter, received a nomination for “Best of the Net 2021.” Her short-story collection 'Knockout Beauty and Other Afflictions' (Crowsnest Books, 2023) has won an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship. In addition to writing, Marina Rubin is an avid mountaineer, having summited Kilimanjaro, made it to Everest Base Camp, completed Tour du Mont Blanc and Camino de Santiago.