Connie Jordan Green grew up in Oak Ridge, the setting for her first young people's novel, The War at Home. Her second novel, Emmy, is set in Southeastern Kentucky where many of her relatives live. Both novels were published by Margaret McElderry Books, Macmillan, now Simon & Schuster. The novels have 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. Both books are now available in soft-cover from Tellico Books, an imprint of Iris Publishers. Green’s biographical information and a brief excerpt from The War At Home appear in Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia.

She also writes poetry, short stories for young people, and a personal newspaper column that has run since 1978 in The Loudon County News Herald. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the KWG anthologies Voices from the Valley; All Around Us: Poems from the Valley; Breathing the Same Air; Low Explosions; and Outscape, as well as in Motif: Writing by Ear, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, Slow Children Playing in 2007.

She was honored by the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement in 2008. She attended Denison University in Ohio, received a B.S. in Secondary Education, Math and Science, from Auburn University, and a M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, where she taught in the English Department for twenty-two years. Currently, she teaches writing at various workshops, and speaks frequently at both middle and high schools. She lives on a farm in Loudon County with her husband, a retired engineer. They have three grown children and seven grandchildren.