Carol Begun Rubin, was born.Nov 8, 1921 in the Bronx, NY. She went to public school in NYC and graduated from NYU in 1942. Carol married Morton Rubin, also from the Bronx, in 1943. During the final years of WWII they lived on a naval base in Quonset, RI. In 1945 they moved back to the Bronx and then moved to Queens to raise a family. When Emily, their third child was born in 1956, they moved to the suburbs of Long Island. Carol graduated with a teaching degree from Adelphi University and taught elementary school for forty years. She is an avid reader, swimmer, activist, and news junkie. She and Morton loved to travel and were married for 61 years, till his death in 2005. At 98, Carol swims at her local YMCA, is a member of the NY Retired Teachers’ Association, keeps her doctors amazed at her great health, and joins in on several book groups. During Covid-19 isolation she has been keeping track of her children, grandchildren and great grandchild on Skype and Zoom.

Emily Rubin’s debut novel, Stalina (2011 HMH/Mariner Books), was a selection in the Amazon Debut Novel Award Contest. She was the first recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writer Award in 2011, a finalist in the International Literary Awards, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Ghost City Review, Good Works Review, Red Rock Review, Confrontation, NY Observer, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Smart Set, HAPPY, and All the Restaurants in New York by John Donohue. Rubin founded Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose, a reading and performance series that takes place in laundromats around the country. She runs The Write Treatment Workshops in New York City cancer centers. She has taught fiction and memoir workshops at Bard College, Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Program, and Mount Sinai Hospitals. Rubin has a BA from Bard College and and MFA in Creative Writing from the Writer’s Foundry, St, Joseph’s College. She lives in NYC and Columbia County with her husband, Leslie and dog, Sebastian. She is working on a novel about the East Village homesteading movement of the 1980’s.