Gaylord Schanilec (born 15 April 1955) is an American wood engraver, printer, designer, poet, and illustrator.
[1] He is the proprietor of the press Midnight Paper Sales, located in Stockholm, Wisconsin.
He has used the traditional wood engraving process to create illustrations for hundreds of works.
Influenced by the spirit of place poetry movement of the Great Plains, and by the work of poet Thomas McGrath in particular, his early career was spent in the Twin Cities of Minnesota illustrating books of small press poetry.
In 1981 he began printing books and established his own imprint, Midnight Paper Sales.