Marlen Suyapa Bodden is a lawyer in New York City. She has more than two decades' experience representing poor
people and low-wage and immigrant workers, many of whom are severely underpaid, if paid at all.
She drew on her knowledge of modern and historical slavery, human trafficking, and human
rights abuses to write The Wedding Gift, her first novel.
Marlen is a graduate of New York
University School of Law and Tufts University.
