JIM ROBBINS is an award-winning journalist and the author of three books.  For more than twenty years, he has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times, writing for nearly every section of the paper.  He work also appears in Smithsonian, Audubon, Vanity Fair, The London Sunday Times, Scientific American, Discover, Psychology Today, Condé Nast Traveler, and other publications.  His most recent books are Dissolving Pain and The Open-Focus Brain (with Les Fehmi) and A Symphony in the Brain.  Jim is currently completing The Forgotten Forest (Spiegel & Grau 2011), the story of a remarkable plan to reforest the planet using old growth trees.  He lives in Helena, Montana.