Holley Rubinsky
Holley Rubinsky is a Canadian fiction writer living in Kaslo, a village in the mountains of British Columbia. She is the author of At First I Hope for Rescue (Knopf C­anada; Picador in the U.S.); Rapid Transits and Other Stories (Pol­estar); and Beyond This Point (McClelland & Stewart, 2006).

A winner of the $10,000 Journey Prize and a Gold Medal for fiction at The National Magazine Awards, her second book At First I Hope for Rescue was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She was the host of The Writers' Show, produced by CJLY, Nelson. Her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women.

She holds an M.Ed from U.C.L.A, got her private pilot's license early on, is employed by Holley Rubinsky's Writing Camps/Kaslo as a writing coach, uses the Usui system of Reiki healing when needed and practices Buddhism as taught to the West by HH the Dalai Lama. Her late husband was the software architect Yuri Rubinsky. Robin Ballard, Rubinsky's daughter, is an artist living in Switzerland.




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