About

The Podcast

There’s mystery within the creative process and a story behind every story. In the literary podcast How I Wrote This, host Pamela Hensley sits down with acclaimed novelists, essayists, playwrights, translators, poets, and short story writers to learn more about their lives and the events that shaped their work. Season 2 features writers based in Berlin, or in some cases, inspired by it. They include: Julia Franck, Ivana Sajko, Jonathan Garfinkel, Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Andrea Wulf, Jenny Erpenbeck, Behzad Karim Khani, and Shaena Lambert.

Season 1 featured Montreal-based authors Heather O’Neill, Anita Rau Badami, Mikhail Iossel, Sean Michaels, Baharan Baniahmadi, Kim Thúy, Neil Smith, H. Nigel Thomas, and Michelle Syba.

How I Wrote This is now part of Knockabout Media and available on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google and iHeartRadio. If you like what you hear, please rate and review us so more people can discover the show.

The Host

Pamela Hensley is a writer and the Managing Editor of yolk literary journal. Previously she worked as an automotive engineer and management consultant in Germany, Japan, the US, and Canada.

The Studios

Episodes of How I Wrote This were recorded in Berlin with the support of Daniel Stern and at the Community Digital Arts Hub studio in Montreal. Many thanks to Tyler Rauman, Becca Redden and the whole team. Original music (Attention to Details) by Tyler Rauman.