Career

Gill began his writing career by publishing short stories in small magazines, including The Crescent Review and Writer's Forum. In 2005, Scarecrow Press published his critical biography Graham Salisbury: Island Boy, a reference book intended for scholars of young adult literature. His debut novel, Soul Enchilada was published to acclaim in 2009. A second YA novel, Black Hole Sun, August 2010 has received a starred review from Booklist, as well as recommendations from several authors:

The sins of his father weigh heavily on Durango, an outcast teen mercenary who's trying to eke out a living on tomorrow's gritty, trigger-happy Mars. Fortunately, he is armed with an AI implant, a crew of colorful misfits, and an unshakable sense of humor. David Macinnis Gill rockets readers to new frontiers in this imaginative, action-packed tale. - Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and novelist.-Early life:Suzanne Collins is the daughter of an Air Force officer. She graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts and earned her M.F.A. from New York University in Dramatic Writing....

, author of The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a first person young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic. It is the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world...

Great story, great characters, and nonstop action. David Gill takes you to a rugged, fast, tough world. - Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher

-Biography:Crutcher was born to a World War II bomber pilot and a homemaker on July 17, 1946, in Dayton, Ohio. They later moved to Cascade, Idaho, where Crutcher grew up....

, author of Deadline and Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes

Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes is a young-adult fiction novel by Chris Crutcher. It has been recognized by the American Library Association as a "Best of the Best Books for Young Adults". It is also one of fifty books on Young Adult Library Services Association's The Ultimate Teen Bookshelf...

Black Hole Sun grabbed me by the throat and didn't let go until the last page. In the best tradition of Heinlein and Firefly, Black Hole Sun is for readers who like their books fast-paced, intense, and relentless. Buy it, read it, pass it on!" - Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson is an American author who writes for children and young adults.-Career:...

, author of Wintergirls

Wintergirls

Wintergirls is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. It follows the story of Lia, an eighteen-year-old girl dealing anorexia nervosa. The novel opens with the news that Lia's ex-best-friend Cassie, who was both anorexic and bulimic, has died under mysterious circumstance...

and Speak

Speak

-Music:* Speak , the Hungarian rap artist and internet phenomenon famous for his anti-war video* Speak , the debut album by the actress Lindsay Lohan* Speak , a compilation album by No-Man...

Biography

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 multiple fish and two rescued dogs. He is represented by Rosemary Stimola of the Stimola Literary Studio.”

Gill started teaching in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in the US state of Tennessee , with a population of 169,887. It is the seat of Hamilton County...

. After teaching at two different schools around the area, he moved on to the university environment. He was an assistant professor at Ohio University

Ohio University

Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...

 in the English department before he moved to the East Coast to be an associate professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the English education department. David has a “bachelor’s degree in English/creative writing and a doctorate in education, both from the University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...

, as well as an M.ED from Tennessee-Chattanooga.” He is the Past-President of ALAN (The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents

The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents

ALAN, The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents is an independent assembly of NCTE. Founded in November 1973, ALAN is made up of teachers, authors, librarians, publishers, teacher-educators and their students, and others who are particularly interested in the area of young adult literature...

), and has written and published everything from short stories to book reviews and critical essays.

Non-Fiction and Scholarly Work

• Graham Salisbury: Island Boy (Scarecrow Press), 2005

  Published in: The English Journal, Teacher-Librarian

  Teacher-librarian

  A teacher-librarian , school librarian, or school library media specialist , is a certified teacher who also has training in librarianship...

  
  , VOYA, and others.

Short Stories

• "Broken Circles" (1993) – The Crescent Review
• "People's Song (1996) - Writers' Forum
  Writers' Forum
  Writers' Forum is a American literary magazine founded by Alexander Blackburn in 1974 and based at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. -Other Awards:Stories that appeared in Writers' Forum received "honorable mention" for the O...
  
  , v. 22, 1996, p. 66-73

Novels

• Invisible Sun (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins
  HarperCollins
  HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
  
  ), 2012
• Black Hole Sun (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins
  HarperCollins
  HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
  
  ), 2010
• Soul Enchilada (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins
  HarperCollins
  HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
  
  ), 2009

Accolades

• A 2010 Best Book for Young Adults (BBYA) for Soul Enchilada
• A Best of 2009 by Kirkus Reviews
• 2010 Stuff for the Teen Age by New York Public Library for Soul Encilada
• 2010 Bank Street College Best Books of the Year

Interviews

• Cynthia Leitich Smith Interview
• Debbi Michiko Florence Interview
• JMPrince Interview
• YA Book Central Interview
• Authors On The Verge Interview
• YA Y Not Interview

Blog

• David Macinnis Gill's Personal Blog
• Soul Enchilada Book Webpage