Marina Budhos is an American writer.
Biography
Marina Budhos was born in
Queens, New York
Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the ...
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
Cornell University
Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
where she graduated magna cum laude in English. She then completed her master's degree at
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
. Budhos married
Marc Aronson
Marc Henry Aronson (born October 19, 1950) is an American writer, editor, publisher, speaker, and historian. He has written history and biography nonfiction books for children and young adults, as well as nonfiction books for adults about teenage ...
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
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
The Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (APAAL) are a set of literary awards presented annually by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). The APALA was formed in 1980 "to create an organization that would address the n ...
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
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