KRISTAL BRENT ZOOK is an award-winning journalist and author of four books including The Girl in the Yellow Poncho, a coming-of-age story about being biracial in America, searching for her missing white father, and finding one’s authentic identity. A former contributor to The Washington Post y Esencia, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, El neoyorquino, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Life, y The Guardian, among others.