Writing as Listening: Family, Faith, and Multi-Genre Storytelling with Nancy Ensley

Nancy Ensley has spent decades as a nurse, hospice specialist, legal nurse consultant, and teacher, roles that demand deep empathy and discernment. Alongside that career, she's built a body of work spanning memoir, literature, science fiction, mystery, thriller, and children's books. Living with her husband, John, surrounded by five children and fourteen grandchildren, she says writing has always been her way of listening to life.In this episode, Nancy shares how her years in hospice and legal nursing shaped the way she began listening and eventually writing, how she moves between such different genres while keeping her voice authentically hers, and a real-life experience that unexpectedly became the seed for a story. She also opens up about what she hopes readers, from children to thriller fans, ultimately carry with them.What We Talked About:How hospice and nursing shaped her writing voiceMoving between memoir, sci-fi, mystery, and children's booksA real-life experience that became the seed for a storyWhat she hopes readers carry away from her workWriting as a lifelong way of listening and rememberingConnect with Nancy Ensley:Website: nancyjasinensley.com