Anastasia Rubis has been published in The New York Times, Huffington Post, New York Observer, and literary journals. Her story “Blue Pools” was included in the anthology Oh, Baby published by Creative Nonfiction and edited by Lee Gutkind. Another story, “Girl Falling,” was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays. She co-wrote and co-directed the short documentary Breakfast Lunch Dinner: The Greek Diner Story. Anastasia earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Brown University and an M.A. from Montclair State University, where she was an adjunct professor of English. Early in her career, she was an advertising and public relations executive in Manhattan. She and her husband live in New Jersey, where they raised their daughter, and she spends summers in Greece, where her parents were born. Oriana is her debut novel.
