I had lied to my mom about not thinking about my own funeral. I’d been planning it since I was a teenager, at least the more fashionable aspects of it, dreaming about it the way some girls imagine what they want their wedding or bachelorette party to look like. Sounds a bit macabre, but I’m a firm believer that one should never leave any major life events to chance or to others.
Corina Zappia
Corina Zappia's personal essays and reviews have appeared in TriQuarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, The Rumpus, The Awl, Catapult, Serious Eats, and Gastronomica. A former staff writer for the Village Voice and contributing food critic for The Stranger, she graduated with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a nonfiction MFA from Bennington College. She lives in London.