Zara joined DHA in May 2025, and is one of the Associate Translation Rights Executives. She previously worked on the rights team at Peters, Fraser & Dunlop, and before that was a bookseller at Daunt Books. She holds a Joint Honours undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Film Studies from the University of St Andrews.

Zara handles all adult frontlist titles for Maddalena Cavaciuti, Sara Langham, Christabel McKinley, Nicola Chang, Elise Dillsworth and Jessica Woollard (fiction only) in Arabic; Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Estonia; Georgia; Greece; Indonesia; Israel; Latvia; Lithuania; Macedonia; Slovenia; Ukraine; Vietnam. She also looks after all adult frontlist titles in Czechia/Slovakia, Turkey, and Russia.

Zara also handles Estates in Bulgaria and all co-agented Eastern European markets: Czech/Slovak; Hungarian; Polish; Romanian; Russian; Serbian; Turkish.