Gabriel Meyer

Please describe yourself and your areas of interest.

Poet-journalist Gabriel Meyer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has lived and worked throughout the Middle East, the Balkans, and East Africa. He was especially acclaimed for his coverage of the first Palestinian intifada and of the Bosnian war. His reporter’s diary on the civil war in Sudan, War and Faith in Sudan (Eerdmans), won ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year award for essays in 2006. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his work as a journalist by the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at UC Berkeley in 2017 and by Lancaster University in the UK in 2022. He has published poetry and two novels; a large-scale nonfiction work, The Testimony of Stones, a “biography” of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher, will be published in 2027 by Angelico Press. He has been involved with the historic Ruskin Art Club since 1998 and currently serves as its executive director. He has lectured widely on Ruskinian themes, most recently at Notre Dame University where he delivered the second annual “Ruskin” lecture in February (2022), sponsored by the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, on Ruskin and ecology, and in 2025 as keynote speaker at a symposium on Ruskin and mountains sponsored by Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. He has been a Companion of the Guild of St. George since 2015.

Why did you become a Companion of the Guild?

I became a Companion at the urging of Clive Wilmer, then Master of the Guild and, subsequently, visited the UK in 2016 in order to tour Ruskin-related sites and learn about the work of the Guild.

Web link: www.ruskinartclub.org