Sara Rai (Sara Ray, born 15 September 1956), is a contemporary Indian writer, editor of anthologies and translator of modern Hindi and Urdu fiction.
She lives in Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) and New Delhi in North India.
Rai mainly writes and publishes short stories in Hindi.
Written in a reflective prose style, her stories explore the individual complexities in the lives of ordinary people and outsiders in contemporary India.