About

The Podcast

In the literary series How I Wrote This, creator Pamela Hensley sits down with acclaimed novelists, essayists, playwrights, translators, and poets to learn more about their lives and the events that shaped their work. Guests include Jennifer Egan, Joseph O’Neill, Adelle Waldman, Julia Franck, Jenny Erpenbeck, Shaena Lambert, Mikhail Iossel, Sean Michaels, Kim Thuy, Heather O’Neill, and many more. They are winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the International Booker, the German Book Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction.

All conversations are available to download, stream, replay, and share through this website or on your podcast app. Follow us on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio. Original music (Attention to Details) is by Tyler Rauman.

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 Brooklyn at the The Brooklyn Podcast Studio; in Berlin at the studio of Daniel Stern; and in Montreal at the Community Digital Arts Hub. Many thanks to Joshua Wilcox, Daniel Stern, Tyler Rauman, and Becca Redden.