Based in Houston, Sehba’s formative years were spent in Karachi, where her family resided. She was nurtured in a home where activism was the norm – Sehba’s late father Dr Sarwar initiated the student’s movement in the ’50s, her mother Zakia Sarwar is a well known educationist and her sister Beena Sarwar is a committed journalist and activist. Sehba’s first novel, Black Wings a non-fiction work, was published in 2004. Subsequently, her short stories were published in And the World Changed and in Neither Night Nor Day, two anthologies of Pakistani writings.