Marina Budhos (born March 3, 1960) is an American writer and educator.
Marina Tamar Budhos was born on March 3, 1960 in Queens, New York to Walter Budhos, a math teacher, and Shirley Budhos, an English teacher. Budhos' father was Indo-Guyanese father and her mother was Jewish American.
Budhos attended Cornell University where she graduated magna cum laude in English. She then completed her master's degree at Brown University.
Budhos has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, Ms. Magazine, LitHub, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review and Asian Pacific American Journal. Budhos has won several awards for her writing. She received an NEA in Literature, an EMMA (Exceptional Merit Media Award), and a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers. She has also been honored with an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and a Walter Award. 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. She has taught at Vassar College, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, and the City College of New York.
On September 14, 1997 Budhos married Marc Aronson. Budhos is the daughter-in-law of Boris Aronson.