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Sehba Sarwar

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Sarwar at the 2019 Texas Book Festival

Sehba Sarwar is the author of Black Wings (2004).

Biography

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She grew up in Karachi, Pakistan and has published essays, poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines in India, Pakistan, the US and Canada. She also produces experimental videos and art installations.

Sarwar received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1986, and a graduate degree from the University of Texas, Austin in Public Affairs. She has worked as a journalist in Pakistan and as an educator in Houston before founding Voices Breaking Boundaries in 2000.

Works

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  • "Recovering My Voice". GOOD, Livable Houston Magazine, 2000.
  • Black Wings Alhamra Publishing, 2004
  • "Karachi's Winter Days." New York Times, 2008.
  • "Devouring Mangoes With Gusto." Dawn, 2011.
  • "Bangladesh’s Unresolved History of Independence." Creative Time Reports, 2013.
  • "Lives: A Delicate Matter in the Examination Room." New York Times, 2016.
  • On Belonging. Menil Collection, 2018.
  • "On Belonging & Other Poems." Desi Writers Lounge, 2019.
  • Black Wings - second edition. Veliz Books (2019), ISBN 9781949776003

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