Zara Stone

"[3] It was listed in Women's History Month New Nonfiction for Teens March 2021 by the Seattle Public Library.

[4] Stone lives in San Francisco and has contributed stories, essays and cultural commentary to The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, CNN, and more.

Stone is quoted by The San Francisco Chronicle,[5] and her journalism is cited in numerous books.

Expertly and rigorously researched, Killer Looks takes the reader through the little-known practice of testing surgeries on prisoners, the rise and fall of the rehabilitation movement, the surprising economics of lookism, and the ingrained racism at the heart of all of it.

The work was praised as extraordinarily detailed and vividly compelling,[9] by ABC News, Late Night Live Australia, and called "bonkers," by Kate Lister, a historian, author of "Whores of Yore", and a podcast producer on History Hit.