Kim A. O'Connell has nearly 18 years of publishing experience and a specialization in conservation and preservation journalism. She has held editorial positions at several national publications.

Kim founded Green Quill Communications in 2000. As a freelancer, Kim has written for National Geographic News, The Washington Post, Preservation, National Parks, National Wildlife, America's Civil War, and Traditional Building, among others. Kim's editorials have appeared in newspapers such as the Washington Post and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Kim holds a Master of Arts in Historic Preservation from Goucher College.

Kim's writing has garnered several awards, including the first-place prize in the National Association of Real Estate Editors' annual journalism competition (2009) for a trade magazine article and its second-place prize for writing in weekly business newspaper (2010); the ASLA Bradford Williams Medal, given for excellence in writing about landscape architecture; and two academic writing awards from Goucher College's master's program in historic preservation. Kim was a finalist in the 2008 Bethesda (Md.) Literary Festival writing competition and the 2009 D.C.-area Moving Words poetry competition.

Kim also has written 15 nonfiction books for young people, published by Enslow Publishers. In 2006, the American Association for the Advancement of Science named two of those titles, Pluto and Mercury, among the year's best astronomy books for children. And in 2007, the Children's Book Council listed Kim's book, Primary Source Accounts of the Vietnam War, as one of the year's "Notable Titles."

A longtime resident of Arlington, Virginia, Kim serves on the Arlington County Commission on the Civil War Sesquicentennial, a volunteer history/preservation organization reporting to the County Board. Kim's personal interests include creative writing, hiking and outdoor recreation, and spending time with her husband, son, and daughter and their scrappy black cat. Kim's personal blog about her family, dealing with sensitive children, social anxiety, and selective mutism, can be found at bloomingboy.com.