Bio

Basu is an author and award-winning journalist. Most recently she was a senior writer at CNN. She covered the Iraq War from its inception, for which she won several national awards. Her e-book, “Chaplain Turner’s War,” grew from a series of Atlanta Journal-Constitution stories on an Army chaplain serving in Iraq.

She has focused much of her work on people who survive immense loss and trauma and also on issues of race and identity.

She also was a distinguished professor of practice in the University of Georgia’s narrative nonfiction MFA program.

Basu began her journalism career in Florida. She worked briefly for the Tallahassee Democrat and before that, she was editor of The Florida Flambeau, the independent newspaper serving the FSU community. From 1988 – 1989, she served as communication director for the Children, Youth and Families program of the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services.

You can read a few of Basu’s stories on her website: www.monibasu.com

News

• Moni Basu Receives 2022 FMA Charlie Award for a story on Florida’s Dixie Highway (August 12, 2022)
• Moni Basu To Leave UFCJC to Become Director of UGA Narrative Nonfiction Program (August 8, 2022)
• Moni Basu Authors Article on the Development of a Hurricane Survival Kit by a Survivor of Hurricane Maria (July 6, 2022)
• UFCJC Student Journalists, Alumni and Faculty Selected as Finalists in the 2022 SPJ Florida Pro Sunshine State Awards Competition (June 30, 2022)
• Moni Basu and UFCJC Alumna Share Three Stories of Healing and Hope One Year After the Surfside Condo Collapse (June 22, 2022)
• All News About Moni Basu

Courses

Syllabi from the current and three previous semesters:

• JOU  4308 - Magazine & Feature Writing - Spring 2022 (PDF)
• JOU  4311 - Advanced Magazine Writing - Spring 2022 (PDF)
• JOU  4447C - Applied Magazines - Spring 2022 (PDF)
• JOU  4308 - Magazine & Feature Writing - Fall 2021 (PDF)
• JOU  4311 - Advanced Magazine Writing - Fall 2021 (PDF)
• JOU  4447 - Applied Magazines - Fall 2021 (PDF)