Multidisciplinary artist and writer Sehba Sarwar was raised in Karachi, Pakistan, in a home filled with artists, activists and educators.

Intentionally resisting the boundaries of just one medium and one region, Sarwar has a three-decade history of writing, blogging, performing, and creating time-based installations.

Examining issues of displacement, borders and women’s rights, her essays, short stories, poems, and blogs have appeared in publications including And The World Changed (Feminist Press, New York), The New York Times’ Sunday Magazine, Callaloo, Vallum Contemporary Poetry, Creative Time Reports, Dawn Books & Authors, Houston Chronicle, and more, while her first novel, Black Wings, was published in 2004 (Alhamra Publishing, Pakistan). Sarwar’s video collages have been screened in Pakistan, India, Egypt and the United States, and she has created a broad spectrum of time-based art installations -- including an award-winning Art Car -- for Voices Breaking Boundaries’ Living Room Art productions.

Her What Is Home? project was awarded a 2014-15 Mid-America Arts Alliance Artist Innovation grant. A recipient of three Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Awards, Sarwar also served as Artist-in-Residence at University of Houston's Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

An active member of the community, Sarwar served on the board of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast; Friends of Women’s Studies University of Houston; was a scholar-in-residence at Rice University’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality (2012-16); and participated in panels with the Ford Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. From 2002-2008, Sarwar was co-host of a weekly show at Houston’s Pacifica Radio Station KPFT 90.1 FM through which she interviewed Houston-based artists as well as celebrities including Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass and Patti Smith. A lifetime member of Macondo Writers Workshop and a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum, Sarwar uses her trademark talent for deftly translating experiences into thought-provoking, relatable words and images in her blog where she documents the multiple realities she inhabits as writer, artist, mother, activist and transnational.