Luba grew up in the Hamilton, Ontario area. Soon after finishing her graduate studies at McMaster University in history, Luba landed on the doorstep of Canada’s largest museum, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto where she worked for more than 20 years.

Moving from positions in the Education and Programs Departments to the Museum’s consulting branch, she concluded her career at the institution in the office that managed the Renaissance ROM renovation project.

After leaving the Museum, Luba worked for several years in an administrative and research capacity for a private museum consulting firm with offices in Toronto and London (UK) and concurrently completed a program in Creative Writing at the Humber School for Writers completing her first novel, Theft By Chocolate, about a woman looking for chocolate, love and an international art thief in all the wrong places. It was published by Attica Books in 2012.

She subsequently worked in the educational sphere and private sector, but currently focuses on her writing. Luba published her second novel, Theft Between the Rains, in 2019. The protagonist from her first book, Kalena Boyko, returns to find herself pulled into international art theft intrigue when masterpieces missing since WWII start appearing on her doorstep.