Janet McCue is a writer and researcher living in upstate New York who co-wrote with George Ellison the award-winning biography, Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography (Smokies Life, 2019). She is also the coauthor with Paul Bonesteel of the biography George Masa: A Life Reimagined (Smokies Life, 2024) about the famed Smokies photographer, who was a dear friend and collaborator of Horace Kephart. For three decades, McCue was a librarian at Cornell University specializing in library administration and digital library development.