Sonora Jha is an essayist, novelist, researcher, and professor of journalism at Seattle University. Her latest book is How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family, published by Sasquatch Books USA and Penguin Random House India, 2021. She is the author of the novel Foreign, which tells the stories of farmers' suicides in India. Dr. Jha's op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Seattle Times, The Establishment, DAME, and in several anthologies. She grew up in Mumbai and has been chief of metropolitan bureau for the Times of India and contributing editor for East magazine in Singapore. She teaches fiction and essay writing for Hugo House, Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat, and Seattle Public Library. She is an alumna and board member of Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat, and has served on the jury for awards for Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, and Hugo House.
