Phyllis Green

Phyllis Green's latest book, POLLY & VERONICA (ELJ Publications paperback $18.99), is a coming of age story told entirely in letters between two cousins. This book is for readers age 16 to 116 or anyone interested in the innocence of the 1950's.

Phyllis Green, also the author of sixteen books for children, was born in Pittsburgh, PA. She taught elementary school in Dormont, PA, and both Newark and Wilmington, DE. She is a graduate of West View High School, Westminster College and the University of Pittsburgh. She studied creative writing with Lawrence Hart at the College of Marin and later, playwriting and scriptwriting at the University of Wisconsin. She won a Best Actress award at Westminster College and was named Best Actress in Delaware. She was a band vocalist in Wilmington, DE, singing for dances in the Gold Ballroom of the Hotel DuPont. She is also a playwright with radio plays on Wisconsin Public Radio and performances and readings on Off-Off Broadway in New York City and performances of her one-woman play in Portland, OR. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Micro Award nominee, Best of Storyacious 2013, and Best of the Net 2014 nominee, her short stories, drama, creative non-fiction and poetry have been published in Epiphany, Bluestem, Prick of the Spindle, The Chaffin Journal, Rougarou, The McNeese Review, apt, Poydras Review, New Plains Review, EDGE, Paper Darts, The Examined Life, Mason's Road and other literary journals. For children's books she has won the Maud Hart Lovelace award and the California Young Reader medal. She has won many Spring readings awards from Detroit Working Writers and several awards and a playwriting fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board.

Phyllis is also an artist. You can see her paintings at ArLiJo 123, the Revolution (relaunch), Earth and Altar, Open Arts Forum, ThereAfter, Superpresent (both spring and summer 2021), Novus, New Plains Review, FERAL, CERASUS, Gulf Stream magazine, and soon in little somethings press, Inscape, Rathalla, Rip Rap, CALYX, Aji,

Club Plum, Third Wednesday, Cinematic Codes Review, and in fall of 2022 in I 70 Review.

Phyllis lives in Oregon with her humorous and charming husband (56 plus years together). They have wonderful children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.