Carrie Gibson is the author of two acclaimed works of history, Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, and El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America. She received a PhD from Cambridge University focusing on the Spanish Caribbean in the era of the Haitian Revolution and has worked as a journalist for the Guardian and contributed to other publications, as well as the BBC. She has done research across Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.