Zara Baxter is a Sydney-based speculative ficton writer who has worked as a journalist for a computer magazine. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Zoo Nation, and in anthologies such as Mitch? (2001), Elswhere (2003) and Gastronomicon (2005). Baxter has also been a member of the Thorby Street Writers Group.