June Skinner Sawyers

(Associate Producer) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. June is the author or editor of more than twenty books, many with a Celtic theme, including Bearing the People Away: The Portable Highland Clearances Companion. Her work has appeared in Scottish Tradition, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Common Review, among other publications. In addition, she is the founder of the Phantom Collective, a small arts group that presents theatre works and music programs, for which she has written several theatre pieces, including Black Dogs and Melancholy, a solo play on the life of Samuel Johnson and a two-person play, The Hermit of Skerryvore, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s writing of Jekyll and Hyde. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Flora Macdonald Award from St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, North Carolina, which is given to a woman of Scots birth or descent who has made an outstanding contribution to the human community. (Photo by Theresa Albini)