Emily Rubin, producer/reader, is a writer living in NYC.  Her debut novel, STALINA, Mariner Books 2011, was a winner of the Amazon Debut Novel Award Contest. Her fiction and essays have been published in the Red Rock Review, Confrontations, NY Observer, Poets and Writers, and HAPPY. In 2005 she founded Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose and has produced more than 100 readings and performances in working laundromats. She runs writing workshops for Mt Sinai Hospital Cancer Centers and teaches creative writing in Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Program. She live in NYC and Columbia County, NY.