Zohra Aly
Zohra Aly has published essays and short fiction in literary journals and anthologies. She is currently juggling writing two novels and keeping up with life.
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Zohra Aly
Zohra Aly lives in Sydney on Dharug land. She worked as a hospital pharmacist for several years before writing freelance for 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 and 2023, she was an emerging curator for Writing NSW’s Boundless Festival. She has also chaired panels for the South Coast Writers Festival, WestWords and the Australian Muslim Writers Festival. She is currently juggling writing two novels, a coming of age story set in 80s London and a literary crime story featuring an embroidered heirloom containing clues to a murder which occurred a hundred years ago.