Connie Jordan Green lives on a farm in Loudon County with her husband Dick, a retired engineer. Her weekly column for the Loudon County News Herald is in its 40th year. She writes stories for young people, poetry, and novels (The War at Home and Emmy, both reissued by Tellico Books, an imprint of Iris Publishing Group, both originally published by Margaret McElderry Books, Macmillan, now Simon Schuster). The novels received various awards: The War at Home was placed on the ALA List of Best Books for Young Adults, both books were selected by the New York City Library as Books for the Teen Age, The War at Home was nominated to the 1991-92 Volunteer State Book Award Master List, and Emmy was selected as a Notable 1992 Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.
Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications and has won many awards. She has two chapbooks from Finishing Line Press, Slow Children Playing and Regret Comes to Tea. Her full-length collection, Household Inventory, received the Brick Road Poetry Press Award in 2013. She was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the East Tennessee Hall of Fame for Writers and was honored by the Arts Council of Oak Ridge. She does volunteer teaching for the Oak Ridge Institute of Continued Learning (ORICL), and frequently leads writing workshops.
