About Sonora

Sonora Jha is the author of four books, the latest of which is the novel Intemperance, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Washington State Book Award 2026. It has been hailed as a Best Book of 2025 by Library Journal, the LA Public Library, Book Page, Ms. Magazine, and others. Her 2023 novel The Laughter, won the 2024 Washington Book Award and the AutHer Award, was long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker, NPR, and others. Her memoir, How to Raise a Feminist Son (2021) has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Her debut novel, Foreign (2013) has just been published for the first time in the U.S. in October 2026. It was a finalist for the Shakti Bhatt Prize and the Hindu Prize for literary fiction and was long listed for the international DSC Prize. Formerly a journalist in India and Singapore, Sonora holds a Ph.D. in Political Communication from Louisiana State University and is a Loyola Endowed Professor at Seattle University.