Marina Budhos

Marina Budhos is an American writer.
Biography.
Marina Budhos was born in Queens, New York to a 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 where she graduated with a bachelor's degree. She then completed her master's degree at Brown University. Budhos married Marc Aronson on September 14, 1997.
Budhos writes for publications including "Ploughshares", "Kenyon Review" and "Asian Pacific American Journal". Budhos has won several awards for her writing. She got an EMMA (Exceptional Merit Media Award), a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers. She has also been honored with an Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature and a Walter Award. Budhos won two Fellowships from New Jersey's Council on the Arts. Budhos went to India as a Fulbright Scholar and taught English at William Paterson University, Vassar College and the City College of New York. Budhos worked for the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Forum for Women in Higher Education and National Council for Research on Women.