Sue Johnson made her first guitar out of Grandpa’s cigar box before finding lutherie enlightenment with Adrian Lucas and then Newark College in England about ten years ago. She juggles babies, guitar work, and part-time work in the wood shop of the local girls high school where she subverts the academic curriculum by introducing pupils to the delights of sharp planes. Her degree in geography helps her know that guitars generally come from somewhere other than England. The dahlias in her garden were particularly good this year.

▪ bio current as of 2011