She has a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Stone’s reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and other places. Zara Stone and Ariel Henley join us for an evening on their nonfiction works, Killer Looks and A Face For Picasso, that explore how beauty and identity. From the 1920s up to the mid-1990s, half a million prison inmates across America, Canada, and the U.K. Her areas of specialty include women in STEM, cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery, appearance bias, and the prison industrial complex. Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man. Zara Stone is a SF-based journalist who reports on the intersection of technology, culture, and social justice. Stone writes with compassion and authority. 'Essential reading for anyone interested in criminal rehabilitation. Did you know that free plastic surgery used to be offered in prisons to prevent future crime? How does this old practice intersect with equity, criminal justice reform, and the 'beauty bias'? Come discuss over dinner with Zara Stone, the author of a new book, Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in PrisonsĦ:00pm - 7:00pm Monday, November Ng House Lounge 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. Her latest book, KILLER LOOKS: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS IN PRISON, was released in October 2021.

Killer Looks by Zara Stone