Corina Zappia is a writer and user researcher who grew up in Beaumont, Texas and now calls London home. A former staff writer for the Village Voice and contributing food critic for The Stranger, her essays on mixed-race identity and the portrayal of single women onscreen have been featured in TriQuarterly, Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Catapult, and Salon. She graduated with a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a nonfiction MFA from Bennington College.