Robert Eugene Rubino was born in New York City's Greenwich Village in 1948. He served in the Air Force from 1966-70, including a year at Thule Air Base in Greenland. In 1979, he began a 34-year newspaper career, mostly as a copy editor, including more than 27 years at The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California (during which time it was a New York Times Regional Newspaper), where he also contributed Sunday sports columns for 21 years. He published baseball fiction in Elysian Fields Quarterly from 2001-09 and received a Pushcart Prize nomination for creative nonfiction (Spinning Shame Into Nostalgia, Hippocampus) in 2016. In 2018, at age 70, his first published poem appeared in The Esthetic Apostle. Since then he has published prose and poetry in various online and print literary journals. He lives in Northern California.