Ruta Sevo

Sevo is a boomer, a woman of the sixties. Her fiction probably involves foreign travel, spirituality, the conventions of love, and finding yourself. With a touch of the paranormal.

Her most recent book (2021) is non-fiction, on the New Age movement.

She's published four novels: Pip of Sedro Woolley (2019), My Boat Is So Small (2017), White Bird (2014), and Vilnius Diary (2011).

She’s translated from Bengali and Lithuanian and was the recipient of a national Translation Fellowship. She translated from Lithuanian her great-grandmother’s novel (Happiness, 1902) and her grandfather's memoir (1965), and published her father's

fictional memoir. They are her most popular books, appealing to Lithuanian emigres.

She spent years in Calcutta and Madras (now Chennai) as a scholar, getting immersed in the religions of India. Her fascination for adventurers to the East (E.M. Forster, Alexandra David-Neel, Helena Blavatsky) carried into her novel White Bird and

the story of the New Age movement with its significant Eastern influences.

She lives in Bellingham, WA. An author's page also appears on goodreads.com/sevo.