Zara Nakamura is a Japanese–New Zealander science fiction writer and forest ecologist. Born in 1986 in Sapporo and raised in Auckland, she studied ecology and computer science at the University of Auckland and completed a master's on fungal communication networks. She worked on LiDAR canopy surveys in British Columbia and later as a systems engineer for an orbital agriculture startup in Tokyo. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Shoreline of Infinity, and her work has been shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
