Elisabeth Hanscombe, who blogs at www.sixthinline.com, is a psychologist and writer. She published her memoir, The Art of Disappearing in 2017 after theorising around it in the form of a PhD on the topic, ‘Life writing and the desire for revenge’. She is interested in creative non-fiction and the ways in which we can turn our stories into something beyond anecdote and has published a number of short stories, essays and book chapters in the areas of trauma, shame, psychoanalysis and memory.