Sonora Jha

Sonora Jha is the author of the novels The Laughter (2023) and Foreign (2013) and the memoir How To Raise A Feminist Son: A Memoir and Manifesto (2021). The Laughter has earned rave reviews from The New York Times, The New Yorker, India Today, and The Seattle Times and received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Bookpage and others. Author Celeste Ng has described it as "a deliciously sharp, mercilessly perceptive exploration of power." Foreign was a finalist for The Hindu Prize for Fiction and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award. After a career as a journalist covering crime, politics, and culture in India and Singapore, Sonora moved to the United States to earn a Ph.D. in media and public affairs. Sonora’s OpEds, essays, and public appearances have featured in The New York Times, on BBC, and elsewhere. Her work is rooted in liberatory, intersectional, subversive interrogations of power, race, and gender. Sonora is a professor of journalism at Seattle University. She also teaches fiction and essay writing for Hugo House, Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat, Creative Nonfiction, and Seattle Public Library.