Marina Budhos is an American writer.

Biography

Marina Budhos was born in

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to an Indo-Guyanese father and a Jewish American mother. Both her parents were teachers. They met when her father was working in the Indian Consulate in New York in the 1950s. Budhos attended

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where she graduated magna cum laude in English. She then completed her master's degree at

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. Budhos married Marc Aronson on September 14, 1997. Budhos has been published in numerous publications, including ''The Nation'', ''Ms. Magazine'', ''LitHub'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The Kenyon Review'' and ''Asian Pacific American Journal''. Budhos has won several awards for her writing. She received an NEA in Literature, an EMMA (Exceptional Merit Media Award), and a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers. She has also been honored with an

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and a Walter Award. Budhos won three Fellowships from New Jersey's Council on the Arts. Budhos went to India as a Fulbright Scholar and is currently a professor emerita at William Paterson University. She has taught at Vassar College, Eugene College, the New School, and the City College of New York.

Bibliography

*''House of Waiting'', Global City Press (New York, NY), 1995. *''The Professor of Light'', Putnam (New York, NY), 1999. *''Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers'', Holt (New York, NY), 1999. *'' Ask Me No Questions'', Atheneum (New York, NY), 2006. *''Tell Us We're Home'', Atheneum (New York, NY), 2010. *''Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom & Science'', (co-author, Marc Aronson) Houghton Mifflin (New York, NY), 2010. *''Watched'', Wendy Lamb Books/Random House (New York, NY), 2016. *''Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro & The Invention of Modern Photojournalism'', (co-author, Marc Aronson), Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2017. *''The Long Ride'', Wendy Lamb Books/Random House (New York, NY), 2019. *''We Are All We Have'', Wendy Lamb Books/Random House (New York, NY), 2022

Sources

Living people American women writers Cornell University alumni Brown University alumni Writers from Queens, New York American people of Indo-Guyanese descent Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-writer-stub