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 Jounal Washington Post epi Esans, her work has appeared in Vanite Fè, Nouvèl Yòkè a, Nouvèl Èdikay, Entertainment Weekly, Life, ak Gadyen an, among others.