Michael Gill

Michael Gill is a writer who began that trajectory as a poet. His writing practice evolved into journalism, a field in which he has won recognition several times from the Press Club of Cleveland’s statewide Excellence in Journalism awards, including Best In Ohio: Essays in 2007, and Best in Ohio Reviews and Criticism in 2022 and 2023. He has written for publications including the National Endowment for the Humanities magazine Humanities. He was senior editor at the altweekly Cleveland Free Times, and arts editor at Cleveland Scene before co-founding Collective Arts Network and its magazine, CAN Journal.

He came to woodcut and letterpress printmaking as a writer, first seeking to create books for his own children when they were learning to read. He has had solo shows at Massillon Museum, William Busta Gallery, BAYarts, and Tregoning & Co. and internationally at the Alte Feuerwasche Loschwitz Gallery during a residency at the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, Germany. He has also exhibited in multiple group shows, including The Printed Page (Denver, CO).  His books are held in the Cleveland Public Library Special Collections, as well as in artist book collections of Baylor University, Columbus College of Art and Design, Otis College of Art and Design, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Graffikwerkstatt Dresden (Germany) and Ediciones Vigia (Matanzas, Cuba), and in private collectons in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom