Mike Robbins is a journalist turned development worker. He is the author of five books: The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán (2014), a novel; The Nine Horizons (2014), a collection of travel pieces; Three Seasons, a trio of novellas; Even the Dead are Coming (2009), a memoir of life as a volunteer in Eastern Sudan; and Crops and Carbon (2011), about agriculture and climate change. He was born in London but has lived in many countries, and is currently in New York. (Pic: S. Ligabue)