Sehba Sarwar is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and
activist, currently based in Houston, USA. She moves between the city of her
birth, Karachi, Pakistan, where she spent the first half of her life in a home
filled with artists, activists and educators, and her adopted city, Houston,
where she has recreated a community similar to the one where she was raised.
Her writings have appeared in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines in India,
Pakistan, and the US, and her work (writings, installations and videos) explore
displacement and women’s issues, moving between South Asia and the US.
Sarwar's first novel, Black
Wings was published in 2004
(Alhamra Publishing, Pakistan), and her short stories have appeared in
anthologies includingAnd The World Changed (Feminist Press,
New York) and in Neither Night Nor Day(Harper Collins, India). Alongside her
fiction, Sarwar has published a wide range of essays in publications including The News on Sunday, The
New York Times’ Sunday Magazineand Callaloo,
while her poetry has been published in anthologies in Pakistan, Canada and the
US.
In addition to her writings,
Sarwar serves as artistic/ founding director of Voices Breaking
Boundaries (VBB), a non-profit arts-activist
organiza tion in Houston, USA, through which she has created a series of video
collages that have been screened in Pakistan, India,Egypt and
the US. In an attempt to document the multiple realities she inhabits - writer,
artist, mother, activist, dual citizen - Sarwar maintains a blog, Daily Noise,
where she posts images, videos and words.
Sarwar is an active voice at
Houston's KPFT
Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM. She continues to teach writing and multidisciplinary
arts workshops at all levels in Pakistan and in the US. Currently, she's
working on a variety of projects including her second novel, a collection of
essays, and she directs Voices Breaking Boundaries' living
room art series, productions
that juxtapose the cultures, joys and struggles in Karachi and Houston.
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