Zara Chowdhary

Zara is a writer and a creative writing and language educator. Her debut memoir The Lucky Ones was released to critical acclaim. She has taught courses in Hindi and South Asian cultures, protest poetry, and creative nonfiction. Zara previously worked in film and media. Her work has aired on Channel [V], National Geographic India, and Turner Classic Movies. Her prose has appeared in New Moons, Flyway Journal, and Cotton Xenomorph. At Mesa, she worked on a novel that draws the hypocritical outlines of India’s growing “philanthropic billionaire” class in a moody, environmental thriller that places a big, fat Indian wedding in a place of grave ecological collapse.