Heaven Crawley is a writer whose work explores how power shapes everyday life — through food, movement, and belonging. She has spent more than three decades working across borders and institutions, engaging with migration, inequality, and development in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Alongside her writing, she has held senior research and leadership roles in government, universities, and the United Nations, and has published widely on migration and displacement. Her work is read by scholars, policymakers, and practitioners around the world. She is currently writing The Taste of Power: How Five Foods Changed the World, a narrative history that follows rice, maize, potatoes, tomatoes, and apples to show how ordinary foods helped shape empires, identities, and resistance. She lives in Italy where she is also a commercial hot air balloon pilot.