About David Macinnis Gill

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SHORT BIO (38 Words)

David Macin­nis Gill has been a house painter, cafe­te­ria man­ager, book­store schleper, high school teacher, and col­lege pro­fes­sor. He now lives on the Car­olina coast with his fam­ily, plus four­teen fish, two res­cued dogs, and a noc­tur­nal marsupial.

MID BIO (89 Words)
David Macin­nis Gill is the author of the debut novel, Soul Enchi­lada, from Greenwillow/Harper Collins. His sto­ries have appeared in sev­eral mag­a­zines, and his crit­i­cal biog­ra­phy, Gra­ham Sal­is­bury: Island Boy, was pub­lished by Scare­crow Press. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English/creative writ­ing and a doc­tor­ate in edu­ca­tion, both from the Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee, as well as a M.ED. from Tennessee-Chattanooga. David is the Past-President of ALAN (The Assem­bly on Lit­er­a­ture for Ado­les­cents) and an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina at Wilm­ing­ton. He is rep­re­sented by Rose­mary Sti­mola of the Sti­mola Lit­er­ary Studio.

FULL BIO
David Macin­nis Gill is the author of the debut novel, Soul Enchi­lada, from Greenwillow/Harper Collins. His short sto­ries have appeared in sev­eral mag­a­zines, includ­ing The Cres­cent Review and Writer’s Forum. His crit­i­cal biog­ra­phy of young adult author Gra­ham Sal­is­bury, Gra­ham Sal­is­bury: Island Boy, was pub­lished by Scare­crow Press. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English/creative writ­ing and a doc­tor­ate in edu­ca­tion, both from the Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee. He is the Past-President of ALAN (The Assem­bly on Lit­er­a­ture for Ado­les­cents) and an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina at Wilm­ing­ton. His non-fiction, book reviews, essays, and aca­d­e­mic work have appeared in a vari­ety of pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing The Eng­lish Jour­nal, Teacher-Librarian, and many others.

David’s teach­ing career began in Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee, where he was a high school teacher at Brain­erd High School and briefly at the Chat­tanooga School for the Arts and Sci­ences. He later joined the Eng­lish Depart­ment at Ohio Uni­ver­sity as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor. Cur­rently, he is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish edu­ca­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina Wilmington.

David has been a house painter, cafe­te­ria man­ager, book­store schleper, high school teacher, and col­lege pro­fes­sor. He now lives on the Car­olina coast with his fam­ily, plus four­teen fish, two res­cued dogs, and a noc­tur­nal mar­su­pial. He is rep­re­sented by Rose­mary Sti­mola of the Sti­mola Lit­er­ary Studio.

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