Gail Spilsbury founded Bergamot Books in 2003 to develop, edit, and print art historical books. In 2011, Bergamot expanded to handle print-on-demand and e-books in the humanities, in addition to offering full editorial services to authors and publishers.​ Gail has been a career book editor for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, and National Geographic. As editor in chief for Bergamot Books, she has helped numerous authors develop and write their books.

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Gail is the author of the novel Natalie & Antonella in Rome (also translated into Italian); There Are Places (short stories); Visits (chapbook); That Year in Boston (novel); Sabina Quartet (novel, also translated into Italian); two children’s books Tiger of the Caesars and Sid’s Book about Me; and two cultural landscape histories, A Washington Sketchbook and Rock Creek Park.​ Three of Gail’s screenplays have been optioned, and she has written numerous film reviews for the Boston City Paper, archived here. She wrote the contemporary fiction podcast series Red Line (also available on iTunes “Redline Boston Fiction Series”) and recorded two readings of her work: “Remembering Margaret Fuller” and “Visits,” both available on YouTube. Her volume of poems from dreamwork, The Excavation Site, releases in Fall 2026. 

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Gail graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in history, earned an MA at SUNY-Buffalo, and studied creative writing under novelist John Gardner at SUNY-Binghamton. She has taught writing at Warsaw University and publishing at Emerson College. ​She lives in Washington, DC.