Marina Tamar Budhos (edit name/settings)

Marina Budhos, an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction, has published the novels, Tell Us We're Home, Ask Me No Questions, winner of the James Cook Teen Book Award and New York Public Library Notable and Best Book, The Professor of Light, House of Waiting and a nonfiction book, Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers. In Fall 2010, she will publish Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science, co-authored with her husband, historian and author Marc Aronson. Her short stories, articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in publications such as The Kenyon Review, The Nation, Ms., Travel & Leisure, Time Out, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Budhos has given talks at universities in the U.S. and abroad, has been a Fulbright Scholar to India, and was awarded a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers and a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Council. Budhos is currently an associate professor of English and Asian Studies at William Paterson University. Her website is www.marinabudhos.com.