Bio
Sarita Sarvate was born and raised in India and came to the U.S. to attend graduate school at U.C. Berkeley. Trained as a physicist, she began to write opinion pieces for the Oakland Tribune in the 1990s because she could not find third world women’s voices in the media. Winner of the New California Award for the best commentary, her commentaries have been nationally syndicated in periodicals such as the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Baltimore Sun, the Arizona Sun Times, the San Francisco Examiner, Salon.com, and several Spanish language newspapers. She has also aired commentaries on NPR and its San Francisco Bay Area affiliate KQED FM.
For twenty-five years, she wrote the Last Word column for India Currents, a magazine catering to the Indian diaspora. Her articles won her the San Francisco Press Club award for three consecutive years. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and an alumna of the Hedgebrook Writers Residency and the Voices of our Nation Foundation. Winner of the 2025 International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Competition, her memoir, Midnight’s Daughter, will be published in 2026.