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A native New Yorker and graduate of Bard College, Rubin is a long-time resident of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. She is a local broadcast professional serving as a producer and television stage manager at MTV, History Channel, A&E, NBC, PBS, Fox News, and Bravo, among other networks. Rubin's debut novel, STALINA, was published in January 2011. Her fiction has also been published in the Red Rock Review, Confrontations, and HAPPY. In APril 2011 she was the recipient of the 1st Annual Sarah Verdone Writers Award, and is a past nominee for the Pushcart Prize for her short story “Birthday 1953.: In 2005, she began producing Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose, a reading series that takes place in Laundromats around the United States. She divides her time between New York City and Columbia County, New York with her husband, Leslie, and their dog, Sebastian

Not Waving But Drowning makes a joyful noise with banjos, violas, whiskey bottles, trumpets, and pots and pans, all while spinning together shipwrecked shanties, homespun Appalachian reels, whiskey-drenched bordello blues, and gleeful indie rock. Born in a squalid Brooklyn cabaret and shanghaied by a dilapidated freighter bound for uncharted waters, NWBD sings tales of mystery, adventure, and poisoned love in distinctive three-part harmony and impeccable attire. Their toe-tapping rag and bone style will charm you into dancing the Madison while artfully palming your pocket watch. “…pops & rattles with an old world urgency.” -Sepiachord