About the Author

Ellen Robertson Green is an award-winning journalist who has written for television for thirty years. She began her career as a nightly news anchor and reporter for commercial television stations and, later, as a documentary producer and host of a long-running PBS talk show in Texas where she interviewed celebrities, authors, and politicians every week in front of a live studio audience. 

The Radio, Television News Directors Association of the United States recognized Ellen’s work with an Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in documentary production and storytelling. In addition, she earned a Barbara Jordan Award from the Texas Governor’s Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities for excellence in communicating the reality of people with disabilities.

Ellen honed her ability to speak in front of a live audience when she campaigned for, was elected, and held political office, serving two terms as a city council person. She was also the Vice President of Marketing and Communication for a college, acting as spokesperson and coordinator of crisis communication. While there, Ellen taught broadcast news writing and public speaking classes to freshman and sophomores. As a hobby, she studied standup and was one of only two people invited back on stage after an open-mic night at a comedy club.

Currently, Ellen is the founder and director of the Bucks County Book Festival near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen and her team of volunteers host fifty authors over two days and draw an audience from surrounding states in the Mid-Atlantic region and along the East Coast. 

A Little Off the Charts is her first novel. It tells the story of Ellen’s struggle to uncover the mysterious disease that stunts her daughter’s growth and starves her hair, setting the mother and daughter team on a journey to redefine the worth of a person others see as different.

Ellen earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas, Austin and an MA in communication from West Texas A&M University.