Born in Karachi, Zia has lived in Montreal, Boston, London, San Francisco and Singapore. Zia holds a Bachelor's and Master's of Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford. In his business career, he has worked as an engineer, a management consultant, a mergers and acquisitions specialist and a venture capitalist. Zia is the author of the travel book Losing Oneself in Remote Asia. His work has also appeared in Chance, Rivative, Undershorts, Cherrybleeds, Novelists Abroad, Hackwriters and other litzines.

• Essays : Vanity in Vietnam

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