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 and Essence, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Life, and The Guardian, among others.