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  • Heidi is an aspiring optimist and committed fantasist with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University. She spends her days reading, writing, wrangling three cats and one child, and imagining backstories for everyone she encounters. Heidi believes love can conquer all, if we let it.

  • Heidi Zuva’s lifelong love is story, in all its forms. She was born in South Africa to a German librarian and a Zimbabwean professor, and she lived there with her pet tortoise, imaginatively named Tortoise, for the first four years of her life.

    From there, she moved around the midwestern United States before landing in Greensboro, NC for the bulk of her childhood. An aspiring witch and full-fledged nerd, she attended Phillips Exeter Academy as a scholarship kid, agog at the wealth surrounding her even as her family faced foreclosure during the ’08 housing crisis.

    Entering her early adulthood with a deep fear of debt, she didn’t let her fulltime courseload at Harvard put her off of beginning a colorful work life the second she could legally(-ish) work. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology in 2014, and no student debt.

    Heidi worked as an SAT tutor, print model, promotional model, commercial model, television actor (small roles), ghostwriter, as a generalist at a couple tech startups, and some less resume-friendly gigs. She has apprenticed in a Swiss-German restaurant kitchen and completed a nursing practicum in a German ICU.

    Heidi’s career trajectory really doesn’t make any sense, unless you consider her main interest: people and their stories. She is fascinated by human motivation, loneliness, and the parts of ourselves that we don’t share. Frankly, she’s a nosy bitch.

    Heidi now lives a quiet life in London with a husband she loves an embarrassing amount and a daughter whose smile makes the sun rise. They have three cats and she’s always mixing up some potion or other (some may call it dinner, some may call it a hex) so basically she managed to become a witch after all. 

    Wonderfully, it is not yet The End.

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  • A sex worker enters the topsy turvy tradwife world of a billionaire's compound, only to discover he’s developing a dangerous new technology.

    Anora meets The Stepford Wives in a thrilling exploration of femininity, power, and the dangers of a soft life.

  • Runako Moyo is one of NYC's top high-end escorts. To reach the apex of her career she'll have to snag a whale client.

    Enter: billionaire tech bro Ezra Gold.

    Ezra offers Runako a high stakes: if she can keep his interest for one year, she walks with ten million dollars.

    Runako accepts, entering the secluded, 50s-esque world of Ezra's remote Montana compound - where she's not the only one who's playing the game.

    Worst of all, the stakes have shifted: Ezra is brewing a dangerous new technology, and it could mean the end of not only Runako, but life as we know it.

  • TROPHIES is Anora x 'The Stepford Wives.'

    Runako Moyo, alias Cleo Noir, is one of NYC's top Black high-end escorts. In an industry more racist and sizeist than fashion, she's sculpted herself into a fantasy. Then she meets enigmatic tech billionaire, Ezra Gold, and everything changes. He offers her a year-long exclusive contract, in which she’ll make enough money to quit sex work for good.


    Runako takes the deal and Ezra whisks her away to a compound in the American midwest. She's cut off from the world and technology, living amongst a group of trad girlfriends. But Runako can’t help her curiosity and soon she discovers the true purpose of Ezra’s compound.

    TROPHIES is weird girl lit with a speculative twist. It combines the matter-of-fact approach to sex work in ‘Margo's Got Money Troubles’ with the exploration of how technology and women's issues intersect in ‘Annie Bot.’ Though it gets dark, there's a hopeful undercurrent and themes of found family, self-definition, and what makes a good life.