Sophy Roberts is an award-winning author and travel writer.
After an unusual start writing about different sides of the pornography industry, she cut her teeth as editor-at-large on the UK edition of Cond\xe9 Nast Traveller, before joining the magazine\u2019s American team as a special correspondent.
Sophy shares why the best source for stories is through chance meetings with strangers, albeit on a train or in a Mongolian tent, which formed the backdrop of her Sunday Times Book of the Year (2020), \u2018The Lost Pianos of Siberia,\u2019 which documents her quest for the classical instrument against the extreme Russian landscape. Recalling her work with Jessica Mitford on one of the most notable expos\xe9s in American literature, she compares UK and US newsrooms from a freelancer\u2019s perspective.