| MARINA BUDHOS was born in Queens, New York, the child of an Indo-Guyanese father and a Jewish-American mother who met in the 1950s when her father worked for the Indian Consulate in Manhattan. The community she grew up in, which was built for U.N. families, was an oasis for families seeking to raise their children in a multiracial and multicultural environment. This, along with the world of Indo-Caribbean and Indian friends who surrounded her, profoundly shaped who she is and what she writes about.
She is the author of two novels, House of Waiting and The Professor of Light. A nonfiction book, Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers, was published in October 1999.
She has also written fiction and nonfiction for numerous publications, including Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Dissent and elsewhere. Among her prizes: a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers, a SAJA Journalism Award. She was a Fulbright Scholar in India, during which she wrote about the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in India for The Nation.
She has also covered international news for Ms., and recently received an EMMA (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for an article about sex tourism to Asia.
She lives in New York City with her husband.
Marina Budhos' writing appears in:
Dissent
Contours of the Heart
Caribbean Writer
Asian Pacific American Journal
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