Knockout Beauty and Other Afflictions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780921332886)

Marina Rubin was born in the small town of Vinnitsa, Ukraine, and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1989. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Flash fiction collection Stealing Cherries, an associate editor of Mudfish, Tribeca's literary and art magazine, and a 2013 recipient of COJECO Blueprint Fellowship. Her work has appeared in over eighty magazines and anthologies.

One of centerpiece stories of this collection, "Man in a Fedora," was recorded as an-hour long podcast, reminiscent of classic radio productions, that involved eleven voice actors of the Nightshift Radio Storyteller Series. The present collection has received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship.

In addition to writing, Marina is an avid mountaineer, having summited Kilimanjaro, made it to Everest Base Camp, and completed Tour du Mont Blanc and Camino de Santiago. She lives in Brooklyn.