Sonora Jha

Sonora Jha, Ph.D., is an essayist, novelist, researcher, and a professor of journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel Foreign and the memoir How to Raise a Feminist Son. Her 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.