-Lahiri moved to America when she was three and considers herself American ( "I wasn't born here, but I might as well have been.")
-(2001) Lahiri married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush (a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of TIMELatin America)
-(2005) Lahiri has been a Vice President of the Postsecondary Education Network International American Center, an organization designed to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers.
.-(2009) Currently Lahiri lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and their two children, Octavio (b. 2002) and Noor (b. 2005).