Paul Scraton is a writer and editor based in Berlin. Born in Lancashire, he moved to the German capital in 2001 where he has lived ever since. He is the author of Built on Sand (Influx Press, 2019), a novel of Berlin centring on personal geographies of place, and how memory and history live on in the individual and collective imagination. He is also the editor-in-chief of Elsewhere: A Journal of Place and the author of Ghosts on the Shore: Travels Along Germany’s Baltic Coast (Influx Press, 2017).