Biography of Sehba Sarwar


Sehba Sarwar is a multidisciplinary craftsman whose exposition, verse, video, and execution workmanship handle race, class and sexual orientation issues. Brought up in a home loaded up with specialists, teachers and activists in Karachi, Pakistan, she learned at a youthful age to take a stand in opposition to imbalance. In the course of the most recent decade, Sarwar's works have showed up in compilations, papers, and magazines in India, Pakistan, and the U.S. Her work investigates ladies' issues at a worldwide dimension and straddles two landmasses, moving between South Asia and the United States. 

Sarwar's first love keeps on being fiction: her novel Black Wings was distributed in 2004 (Alhamra Publishing, Pakistan); her latest short story, "Sediment," is incorporated into the 2008 compilation of Pakistani ladies authors, And The World Changed (Feminist Press, New York); and her story, "A Sandstone Past," showed up in another collection of Pakistani ladies scholars, Neither Night Nor Day (Harper Collins, India: 2007). Her papers have showed up in productions including Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature, The New York Times' Sunday Magazine, and Callaloo. Her verse has additionally been distributed in Pakistan and the U.S., and she has played out her work in the two nations. Sarwar regularly drives composing workshops for youthful and grown-up ladies, with the essential objective of helping them discover their voices. 

She experienced childhood in Karachi, Pakistan and has distributed expositions, ballads and short stories in papers and magazines in India, Pakistan, the US and Canada. She likewise creates test recordings and craftsmanship establishments. Right now situated in Houston, Texas, she fills in as Artistic/Founding Director of Voices Breaking Boundaries, a non-benefit expressions association that has been creating elective craftsmanship in Houston since 2000. 

Sarwar got her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1986, and an advanced education from the University of Texas, Austin in Public Affairs. She has functioned as a columnist in Pakistan and as an instructor in Houston before establishing Voices Breaking Boundaries in 2000. 

My work handles movement and outskirt issues and has showed up in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Creative Time Reports, ASIA: Magazine of Asian Literature and somewhere else. 

Through On Belonging, my most up to date multidisciplinary venture that I am as of now visiting, I offer exhibitions, establishments, and workshops analyzing individual and network relocation designs. The venture is a piece of a journal that I started in 2013 while craftsman in-habitation at the University of Houston's Mitchell Center for the Arts. My most critical work in Houston may have begun in 2000 when I established Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB), an elective expressions association that handles social equity issues at a neighborhood and worldwide dimension. 

Sehba Sarwar was conceived in Karachi, Pakistan in 1964. She went to the U.S. to seek after her college degree in English at Mount Holyoke College in 1983 and later sought after an advanced education from The University of Texas at Austin in Public Affairs, completing in 1992. Ms. Sarwar is a practiced essayist, lobbyist, and craftsman. She has been the originator and imaginative chief for Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) for a long time, which is an association that investigates issues in instruction, race, ladies' rights, and statistic changes in Houston and different parts of the world. She has additionally worked in the Houston School District as a Journalism and Creative Writing instructor for a long time and also for the Houston Community College. She has distributed many papers, short stories, and ballads in the U.S. what's more, in Pakistan, including the novel, Black Wings. She has served on various sheets, including the board for Planned Parenthood and KPFT radio. Ms. Sarwar naturalized to the United States in 2001, however much of the time makes a trip back to Pakistan for work and to invest energy with her family. She is right now hitched and has an eight-year-old little girl with whom she lives in the Houston region. She communicates in English, Urdu, and somewhat Spanish. 

Sehba Sarwar is an author, multidisciplinary craftsman and lobbyist. She moves between the city of her introduction to the world, Karachi, Pakistan, where she spent the principal half of her life in a home loaded up with specialists, activists and instructors, and her received city, Houston, where she has reproduced a network like the one where she was raised. Sarwar's work handles ladies' issues and dislodging. Her first novel, Black Wings, was distributed in 2004 (Alhamra Publishing). Her articles, sonnets and short stories have showed up in compilations, papers, and magazines in Canada, India, Pakistan and the United States, in distributions including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Callaloo and Asia Magazine, while her video/craftsmanship establishments have been displayed in Pakistan, Egypt, India and the United States. 

Through Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB), a grassroots expressions association she helped to establish 13 years back and where she fills in as Artistic Director, Sarwar coordinates and makes new work for VBB's front room workmanship creations. A lifetime individual from the Macondo Writers' Workshop, Sarwar is recorded on Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artist Roster. From 2012-14 Sarwar fills in as Artist-in-Residence for the Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, where she is taking a shot at a task entitled What is Home?