Tamar Rubin is a Winnipeg physician, writer and mother. She has published her work in both literary and medical journals, including Vallum, Prairie Fire, CV2, The New Quarterly, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Hippocrates Medical Poetry Anthology, and others. Her unpublished chapbook, Tablet Fragments, was shortlisted in Vallum's 2017 chapbook contest, and her poems were long listed in Room magazine's 2017 Poetry Contest and CV2's 2018 Young Buck Contest.