Saiba Varma is a writer and anthropologist based in San Diego. She grew up in India, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, and China. Her first book, The Occupied Clinic won the Edie Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing. She co-edited Decolonizing Bodies: Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing and Liberation (with Carolyn Ureña). Saiba has given over 50 public talks across the globe and has written for Compact, The Nation, Al Jazeera, Salon, Truthout, The Millions, Scroll.in and The Wire. She has been interviewed by Associated Press, Deutsche Welle (DW), KPFK Pacifica Radio, and San Diego Union Tribune. When not at her desk, she is pulling weeds, cooking, or catching up on pop culture.