Michelle Boyd, PhD is an award-winning writer and scholar, a writing coach and retreat facilitator, and the founder of InkWell Academic Writing Retreats. She spent the first part of her career studying the political significance of black racial identity. In 2008, her book Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville won a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association. In 2015 she founded InkWell, where she specializes in helping stuck, scared scholars free themselves from fear and build a satisfying, sustainable writing practice. Michelle has helped hundreds of scholars - from all ranks and a wide range of institutions and inter/disciplines- move past their anxieties, reconnect with their writing, and develop a calmer, more confident, more productive writing practice.
