Lisa Connors

Lisa Connors grew up in a suburb south of Pittsburgh and has always loved the outdoors. She spent many days in an undeveloped lot nearby climbing trees, discovering caterpillars and dreaming. Lisa has a fondness for the often maligned predator in food chains and wanted to be a wolf biologist. Instead she has experimented with being a medical technologist, a molecular biologist technician and a teacher. Now Lisa's backyard is part of a 14 acre property in rural Virginia, which she's thrilled includes coyote and fox. She writes children's fiction and narrative nonfiction, collecting words and ideas and seeing what comes out of the mix. Her debut picture book, Oliver’s Otter Phase (Arbordale, 2018) won a silver medal in the 31st IBPA-Ben Franklin Awards in the New Voices category. Salmon Matters: How a Fish Feeds a Forest (Createspace, 2018) won first place in the 2019 Virginia Outdoor Writers Association Excellence in Craft Contest for a book. Milkweed Matters: A Close Look at the Life Cycles in a Food Chain, (Createspace, 2016) was second place in the 2017 Virginia Outdoor Writers Association Excellence in Craft Contest for a book.