Sean Gill

Sean Gill is a Primetime Emmy-nominated writer, playwright, filmmaker, and editor. He won Michigan Quarterly Review's 2020 Lawrence Prize (judged by Laura Kasischke, for the best annual fiction in MQR), Pleiades' 2019 Gail B. Crump Prize, The Cincinnati Review's 2018 Robert and Adele Schiff Award (judged by Michael Griffith), the 2017 River Styx Micro-Fiction Contest, and the 2016 Sonora Review Fiction Prize (judged by Molly Antopol). Other prose has been published in The Iowa Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Threepenny Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and ZYZZYVA. He has studied with Juan-Luis Buñuel, is a graduate of Werner Herzog's 2010 Rogue Film School, was directed by Martin Scorsese in the pilot episode of HBO's Vinyl, was a bouncer for Public Enemy, Isaac Hayes, and Jefferson Starship, and worked as an artist-in-residence at the Bowery Poetry Club from 2011-2012. He has edited a number of documentary programs for Netflix, Paramount