About
Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction.
She has published the novels, Tell Us We’re Home, Ask Me No Questions, an ALA Notable and winner of the first James Cook Teen Book Award, The Professor of Light, House of Waiting, and a nonfiction book, Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers.
Her short stories, articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in publications such as The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Literary Review, The Nation, Dissent, Marie Claire, Redbook, Travel & Leisure, Ms., Los Angeles Times, and in numerous anthologies.
Ms. Budhos has received an EMMA (Exceptional Merit Media Award), a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers, and a Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. She has been a Fulbright Scholar to India, given talks throughout the country and abroad, and is an associate professor of English and Asian Studies at William Paterson University.
She is married to editor and author Marc Aronson and their book, Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom & Science, is also forthcoming in 2010 from Clarion/Houghton Mifflin.