Elizabeth Rubin

Elizabeth Rubin is an American journalist. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. She has traveled through and written about Afghanistan, Russia, Chechnya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and the former Yugoslavia. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, Vogue and The New Yorker. She lives in New York City.

Background

Rubin was raised in Larchmont, N.Y. and earned a B.A. at Columbia University and an M.Phil. at Oxford University. She is the sister of journalist and executive editor at Bloomberg News, James Rubin.

Career

Elizabeth Rubin started her career reviewing theater at the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard, before moving to The Forward as deputy cultural editor. In 1994 she went to Sarajevo for a six-week stint which lasted nearly two years. Her reportage in Harper's about private armies, diamond wars, and state collapse in Sierra Leone was a National Magazine Award finalist and earned an Overseas Press Club citation for excellence. After 9/11, she covered the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for The New Republic and wrote about Russians, Chechens, Saudis, Iraqis, Iranians, and Americans abroad for The New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer.

Awards

Rubin is a 2004-2005 Nieman Fellow. At The New Yorker, she won the Livingston Award for International Reporting for her story about a Ugandan rebel army of kidnapped children. She a 2008–2009 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow.