[1] Hudson's first book of fiction, Dear Mr. President (Knopf, 2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

[2] Hudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and held a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.

[4][5][6] Hudson's story collection Dear Mr. President was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times.

[8] Previously Hudson was Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University's Underwood International College.

[10] Hudson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, BlackBook, Granta, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, the International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times Magazine.