David Macinnis Gill is the author of the debut novel, Soul Enchilada, due out in Winter ‘09 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.

David is the current President of ALAN (The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) and an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. A former high school teacher, David lives on the North Carolina coast with his wife and children, fourteen fish, two birds, a nocturnal marsupial, and a very fat sheltie.

He is represented by Rosemary Stimola of the Stimola Literary Studio.