Zara Stone is an award-winning journalist who has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, Forbes, Cosmopolitan Magazine, VICE, OneZero, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The BBC, among other publications. She's worked as an on-air national correspondent for ABC News and Univision in America, and SKY News and BBC News in the U.K. She specializes in reporting on the intersection of technology, subcultures, social justice, history, and business. She was born in London, England, and after a few years of working in British media, she moved to New York for further study. She graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and jumped into the U.S. media world, reporting for The Wall Street Journal, then transitioning into on-air reporting for ABC News. She has guest lectured about beauty bias in the criminal justice system at Stanford University and is regularly asked to moderate or present on the topics of women in STEM and prisoner rights. Now a full-time freelance writer and author, she spends her spare time playing games in virtual reality, speed-reading (100 + books a year), hula hooping, and falling off her paddleboard. She lives in San Francisco and cares for three artificial houseplants. Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery In Prisons (Prometheus, 2021) is her first adult book. The Future Of Science Is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century (Mango Media, 2020) is her first middle grade book.