Connie Goldsmith

Connie Goldsmith writes nonfiction books for teen readers about history, health, and science. She has twenty-eight books (counting those coming out fall 2023, spring 2024, and fall 2024) all but one with Lerner Publishing imprints. Her works include books about military working dogs, suicide, addiction/overdose, stigma, the U.S. nuclear testing program in the Marshall Islands, traumatic brain injury, malaria, influenza, antibiotic resistant infections, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the California Gold Rush, among others. Currently, she is working on additional nonfiction projects. Most of her books contain in-depth interviews. She is also first reader for a children's literary agent.

She is a big fan of today's young adult and middle-grade novels. Over the past fourteen years, she has reviewed more than 800 children's books for a regional parenting publication, and many others for the New York Journal of Books. She has more than 200 articles published in various genres. These include California Kids, the children's magazines Cricket and Highlights, the SCBWI Bulletin, and Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market.

As an RN with a master's degree in health, Ms. Goldsmith has also written continuing education articles for nurses and other health care professionals on a wide variety of topics, and has written a pediatric health column for a regional parenting publication. Visit her at www.conniegoldsmith.com. Ms. Goldsmith is a member of the Authors Guild and a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in the SCBWI California North/Central region. She lives near Sacramento, California where she hikes along the American River, sweats out the miles on her treadmill, plays with her crazy cats, and visits with family and friends between bouts of frenzied research and writing.