One of the first books to explore the lives of adult children of black-white unions, Black, White, Other is a core text in the study of American multiracial identity.

Funderburg was raised in the West Philadelphia neighborhood of Powelton Village, a relatively stable racially mixed community that countered prevailing trends of white flight and exclusionary real estate practices.

Her master’s thesis sparked the idea for her first book, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity (Morrow, 1994), and she built a career in New York as a freelance writer and editor.

In addition to writing and editing, Funderburg began teaching, mostly at the university level but also in public and private settings as well as one-on-one manuscript consultations through the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.

Dating After Divorce”, O, the Oprah Magazine, February 2003 “The Bearable Enlightenment of Weights”, O the Oprah Magazine, November 2001 “Saving Jason”, LIFE, May 2000 “Race in Class, After Integration”, The Nation, June 5, 2000 “Why We Break Up With Our Siblings”, TIME, December 18, 2000 “The Last Goodbye: When both parents die, middle-aged children must adjust to a new stage of life in which they become adult orphans”, TIME, November 13, 2000 “Integration Anxiety: Montclair, N.J., has embraced racial diversity like no other town in America.

But race, it turns out, is never a black-and-white issue”, The New York Times Magazine, November 7, 1999 “Loving Thy Neighborhood”, The Nation, December 14, 1998 “When Are You White?”, Hungry Mind Review, Spring 1998 2013 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbria, Italy[7] 2012 First Prize for Narrative Nonfiction Feature Story ("Big Love," More magazine), American Society of Journalists & Authors[8] 2012 Drexel University selects Pig Candy for its Freshman Reading Program[9] 2011 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival selects Black, White, Other as best representation of the mixed-race experience in films and literature[10] 2004, 2006 City Gardens Contest 2nd Prize for Individual Flower Garden, Philadelphia, PA 2004 Puffin Foundation Grant[11] 2003, 2004 MacDowell Colony residency, Peterborough, NH[3] 2003 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Nonfiction Fellowship[3] 2002 Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant, Philadelphia, PA[12] 1999, 1997 The Thurber House writer in residence, Columbus, OH[3] 1997 The Dick Goldensohn Fund Projects grant, NY, NY[3] 1996 Blue Mountain Center writer’s residency, Blue Mountain Lake, NY[3] Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity (William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1994; Quill, 1995; Smashwords, 2014).