Joseph Pearson is a writer and cultural historian based in the German capital. He is the author of three books of literary non-fiction, The Airlift (The History Press; published in North America by Pegasus Books as Sweet Victory, 2025), My Grandfather’s Knife (HarperCollins, The History Press, 2022) and Berlin (Reaktion/ U Chicago Press distr., 2017). His short fiction, poetry, essays, and journalism appear regularly in literary journals and other outlets such as Lettre International,The New England Review, and the BBC. He is also the house essayist of the Schaubühne Theatre in Berlin. Pearson received his doctorate in modern history from the University of Cambridge and previously lectured in the Core Curriculum of Columbia University in New York City. At the Barenboim-Said Akademie, he teaches creative and arts writing, and chairs a poetry writing workshop.