Since 2016, Jill Gage has been the Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She has curated a number of exhibitions at the library, most recently, A Show of Hands: Handwriting in the Age of Print (2022). She is currently working two forthcoming exhibitions, one on immigrant printing in Chicago (2024) and another on pre-Gutenberg printing (2027). She holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois and a PhD in English from the University of London.