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About Zahra Huselid
Zahra is a jane-of-all-trades, having worked in marketing, healthcare, academia, and a brief stint in a radio theatre troupe. She avidly collects Tolkien esoterica, Gunpla, and DVD box sets of her favorite shows. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Pre and Early Modern Literature from UC Santa Cruz, an MBA from the University of Maryland, and a headache.
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Zahra is a lifelong Trekkie as well as a scholar of Shakespeare and Tolkien. She's also dabbled in tabletop game design and audio production.
Favorite Media
Zahra adores fantasy novels, mecha anime, and crime procedurals. She is a lifelong Trekkie, owns every single Dresden Files book, and has shrines to J.R.R. Tolkien and Shakespeare in her living room. She also has a soft spot for sad dad-rock bands, especially ones from Durham, North Carolina.
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