Associate Professor Joel Gill, new faculty in the Illustration Department, had his new book released recently!

Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence, is Joel Christian Gill’s visceral and deeply affecting memoir chronicling his youth and coming of age as a poor Black child in a chaotic southern landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods during the crack cocaine boom of the 1980s. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems in a troubled environment at home, school, and in social interactions. But, fighting doesn’t always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into.

Watch Joel on Boston’s WCVB CityLine 12 pm on Jan 26th

…and he will be signing his book at: