June Hall McCash, recognized both for her writing about Jekyll Island, Georgia, and about women in the Middle Ages, has published six nonfiction books as well as numerous articles and several recent poems. She has won eight literary awards for her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry and has recently completed her first historical novel.

She holds a bachelor's degree from Agnes Scott College and a doctorate in comparative literature from Emory University. She has enjoyed an academic career at Middle Tennessee State University, where she was founding director of the University Honors Program (now Honors College) and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages. She has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Education, as well as the recipient of her university's Distinguished Research Award, Outstanding Honors Faculty Award, Career Achievement Award, and an Outstanding Alumna award from Agnes Scott College. She served for eight years as a trustee of the Jekyll Island Foundation and has also been chair of Humanities Tennessee, where she helped to organize the Southern Festival of Books.

Now a full-time writer, she and her husband, Richard Douglas Gleaves, divide their time between Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Jekyll Island, Georgia.