Marina Budhos was born in Queens, New York to an Indo-Guyanese father and a Jewish American mother.
Budhos attended Cornell University where she graduated magna cum laude in English.
[1][2][3][4] Budhos has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, Ms. Magazine, LitHub, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review and Asian Pacific American Journal.
Budhos won three Fellowships from New Jersey's Council on the Arts.
Budhos went to India as a Fulbright Scholar and is currently a professor emerita at William Paterson University.