Renica Rego is a poet and writer based in Mumbai. Her writing has featured in The Times of India, Khaleej Times, Gulf News, Bonobology and Chicken Soup for the Indian Entrepreneur’s Soul. Written under the pseudonym Zara, her first book of Urdu poems, Mukammal, was published in 2019. Her second book, 'The Silence Between' came out in January 2021.