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Shellen Lubin (B. April 4, 1953) was born and raised in Valley Stream, NY by parents Samuel and Lora Lubin (née Bondrov), with her older sister Allene. She graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a triple major in Drama, Music and Dance. During her time at Bennington, she appeared in Miloš Forman's first film in America, 'Taking Off', which featured two songs she wrote ("It's Sunday", which she performed, and "Feeling Sort Of Nice", performed by Karen Klugman). After graduating, she moved to New York City to continue pursuing her career in music and theater.

Her first major theater project after college was the musical Molly's Daughters, which she wrote for the American Jewish Theater in 1978. It was produced twice, first at the Henry St. Settlement featuring Lisa Loomer and Jane Ives, then at the 92nd Street Y featuring Rosalind Harris and directed by Pamela Berlin. Afterwards, she spent a long time writing various plays and songs, most notably Imperfect Flowers for Gretchen Cryer and James "Jimmy" Wlcek, and a number of songs with musician and composer Bill Dixon. In 1983, WBAI-FM presented a one-hour special of her songs entitled Shellen Lubin, Songwriter/Singer. She also wrote and performed a one woman musical about the experience of having her first child (entitled 'Mother/Child') at numerous cabaret spaces and theatres from 1986–88, including the Susan Bloch Theater and Interart Theatre.

In 1998, Shellen began writing a weekly mailer called Monday Morning Quotes. They are quotes from other sources, followed by a brief observation about them, what they describe or how they relate to each other. Initially it was only sent to a small group of her friends, but eventually her subscribers grew through word of mouth. Since interest grew, she archived many of them on her website, and continues adding new subscribers each week.