Background
Senter was born in Plato, Missouri, and his first Hollywood ambition was to become a Disney animator.
Senter was born in Plato, Missouri, and his first Hollywood ambition was to become a Disney animator.
He was one of fifteen film students selected that year, and one of the only students to have not already graduated from college.
After he sent his portfolio of drawings to Disney at the age of seventeen, the company called to tell him they were impressed but were not currently hiring, and he should resubmit in another six months. During those six months, he decided to pursue film directing, his other passion, and sent a collection of homemade films to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Senter redirected his pursuit of directing to writing, working on spec scripts, both feature length and for television, before being taken on as a client at Writer"s and Artist Agency.
Soon he landed his first job on the lesbian drama The L Word, for which he wrote one episode.
Within a year after leaving The L Word, Senter returned to television when he was hired as a staff writer on the American Broadcasting Company drama series Desperate Housewives. He has since written six episodes spanning across the series" first, second and third seasons, debuting with the episode "Goodbye for Now".
He was hired as a staff writer, made a story editor in the show"s second season and promoted to an executive story editor in the third season. In 2014 Joshua helped write and produce a new series for American Broadcasting Company Family called Chasing Life.
And in 2015 he began work as a writer and producer for the critically acclaimed Music Television series Finding Carter.
Joshua"s debut novel Daisies, about the evolution of love in America over the last 70 years, was released by Diversion Books on July 22, 2014.