Zohra Aly
Zohra Aly lives in Sydney on Dharug land. She worked as a hospital pharmacist for several years before becoming a freelance writer. Her features have been published in Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life, MiNDFOOD and Helix. Zohra has an MA in Creative Writing from UTS. Her essays have appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin and Island. Her short fiction has appeared in the UTS Writer’s Anthology Empty Sky and she was on the editorial committee for the commemorative edition of the UTS anthology 40. In 2021, she was an emerging curator for Writing NSW’s Boundless Festival and in 2022, she chaired a panel in the Australian Muslim Writers Festival. Currently, she is a mentor for emerging refugee writers with the South Coast Writers Centre, as well as guest curating for the South Coast Writers Festival.