Josh Boardman is from Michigan. A writing tutor for the past decade, he is also the author of the chapbook Plantain (West Vine Press, 2018) and conducted the Latin translation project We, Romans (2015). His stories have appeared in journals such as New York Tyrant, Catapult, and Dandruff Magazine. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is working on his second novel and a collection of stories about his hometown.

As Principal, Josh cultivates the relationships at the heart of our business — those between coaches and their clients, as well as between coaches and the company at large. His responsibilities go beyond teaching, coaching, and editing to encompass administration and leadership.

The Jumpstart course with Josh is the perfect way to launch that long held dream of writing a novel. This was my first attempt at writing fiction in probably 35 years. The workshops and writing exercises have been awesome, engaging, and thought provoking. As someone that had just a simple idea, the course awakened my drive to finally put the dream into action.

– Chuck M.

Josh is a competent, thoughtful instructor who will help you establish good habits and guide you to become a better writer in a patient, unassuming way. He's flexible, reliable, and just the right amount of stern. His class taught me to ignore the reprimanding editor in my head and just write. Sometimes I surprised myself by the things that I wrote. Sometimes a character surprised me. Sometimes it was shit! But what remained was that I was (am!) writing.

–Jen S.

This novel-writing class was my first experience sharing my work with other "unknown" writers or "workshopping" my story. The class exercises got me thinking about my writing differently. I've been stuck lately and lacked any motivation to write; this class moved me past that place.

–Brenda M.