Sonora Jha is the author of three books, most recently the novel The Laughter, which won the 2024 Washington State Book Award for Fiction and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker, NPR, and others. It also won the AutHer Award for Fiction and was long listed for the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her memoir, How to Raise a Feminist Son (2021) has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Her debut novel, Foreign (2013) was a finalist for the Shakti Bhatt Prize and the Hindu Prize and was long listed for the DSC Prize. After a career in journalism in India and Singapore, Dr. Jha is now a professor at Seattle University and lives in Seattle. Her new novel, Intemperance, is forthcoming from Harper Via in October 2025.
