Zara Karschay's fiction, humour writing and nonfiction can be found in The Gettysburg Review, The Baffler, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New Humanist and elsewhere. She is hybrid artist-in-residence at the Ionion Center for Arts & Culture in Kefalonia. 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” (nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize), The Baffler . “Cthulhu, Life Coach”, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency . “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 . “Scary Science”, Unexpected Elements, BBC.

As a freelance audio producer, grants writer and copywriter, she has worked with the European Central Bank, B3 Media, Anshar Studios, University of Utrecht, Siemens Healthineers, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Berlin, the BBC World Service, and others.