JOSH BOARDMAN is from Michigan. He is the author of the chapbooks COLOSSAL (2025), PLANTAIN (West Vine Press, 2018), and the Latin translation project WE, ROMANS (2015). His work was selected as a finalist in the 2024 Fugue Prose Prize, shortlisted in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and his stories have appeared in journals such as New York Tyrant, Catapult, and Dandruff Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is working on his second novel and a collection of stories about his hometown.

He is the founder, owner, and operator of Hewes House, a writing community with the aim of fostering a new generation of literary voices.
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COLOSSAL, chapbook.

A threepart travel essay on the examination of past selves in the shadow of colossal art objects. Stendhal experienced a “sort of ecstasy” when he first entered the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. I mold 10 years of travel diaries detailing my own experiences of Stendhal Syndrome into texts resembling monolithic art in Naples, Mexico City, and Beacon, NY.
    
part one (first edition sold out, email for a review pdf)
part two (forthcoming) 
part three (forthcoming)

PLANTAIN, West Vine Press, chapbook.

25 portraits of an imaginary plantain.

    excerpts: one | two | three

WE, ROMANS, Latin translation project.

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Split of Mr. and Mrs. Trousers, The End Magazine

Earring (audio), Rose Books Hotline (April 2024)

My Sheets Would Never Have Cooled, translation, Circumference Magazine

Men Who Wear Hats, Farewell Transmission

Crescent Wrench, Schuylkill Valley Journal

Cronus Ate a Rock Baby and That’s What Killed Them, Juked

Obituary, Neutral Spaces Magazine

Fancy Feast, Bodega Magazine

Admiral Station in Snow, elsewhere

Living People, Breadcrumbs Mag

The Mark, Aptly Journal

Lightbringer, Neutral Spaces Magazine

Trail Talk, Shabby Doll House

Phoneshopping, The Fanzine

The Children of Charlemagne, BULL

The Cloud Is (After Aeneid IV), Maudlin House

The Fourth Plague of West Philadelphia, Catapult

One, Dandruff Magazine

Snow Road, Vol. 1 Brooklyn