Zara Karschay's fiction and essays can be found in Ploughshares (forthcoming July 2025), The Baffler, The Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, New Humanist and elsewhere. She received the Harper-Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award for English Poetry and Literature from the University of Cambridge. In 2024, Zara was shortlisted for The Alpine Fellowship's Prize for Poetry.

Publications and audio works include “Departing”, The Gettysburg Review, 34:3 . “Headstone Epitaph”, The Baffler . “Relegated”, La Piccioletta Barca . “Cthulhu, Life Coach”, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency . “Chance Meetings, Choice Contexts” Pleiades . “Nosferatu’s Masterclass in Presenting to Stakeholders”, Defenestration . “I’m Hanging off the Edge of a Cliff, and There has Never Been a Better Time to Podcast!”, Points in Case . “Indulgence”, Literarisches Zentrum Gießen and Old Divinity College, Cambridge . “Welcome to the Productivity Prison”, New Humanist . "Old Llanwddyn Emerged”, Resonance FM . “Trust Metric”, The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum . “A Life in Doors”, Welcome 2 My Home . “Scary Science”, Unexpected Elements, BBC World Service . “Lost Futures”, Short Cuts, BBC Radio 4 .

As a freelance audio-maker, reader, grants writer and copywriter, Zara has worked with the European Central Bank, B3 Media, Anshar Studios, The Masters Review, University of Utrecht, Siemens Healthineers, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Berlin, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, and others.