Yuko Green, an award-winning author and illustrator, has written and/or illustrated more than twenty-six children books and more than forty children activity books since 1989. Furthermore, Green has created and designed numerous images for greeting cards, stationeries, ornaments, wrapping paper, photo frames, calendars and magazines.

Green offers heart-warming vivid stories and illustrations featuring many native plants, animals and traditions of Hawaii. Green specializes in creating vibrant, multicolored illustrations using refined mixed media techniques with watercolor, paper collage, and oil pastels. Her watercolor artworks were selected for the Aloha Airline Art Collection Calendar in 1994 and 2000.

Her children books frequent Hawaii Best Seller List, such as Humu: the Little Fish Who Wished Away His Colors (Island Heritage, 2000), written by Kimberly A. Jackson and illustrated by Green. Her latest illustrated picture book Winter is for Whales (written by Ron Hirschi and illustrated by Yuko Green. Island Heritage Publishing, 2007)  won the 2008 IPPY Award in Children Books category, 12^th Annual Independent Publisher Book Award.

Currently, besides writing and illustrating children books in Hawaii, she write and illustrate for a quarterly magazineiamHAWAII to introduce Hawaiian culture and history to Japanese audience. Green frequently teaches workshops and art classes at K-12 schools, a university and conferences about children's book illustration.  Green presents yearly at the prominent AnnualHawai'i Book and Music Festival (HBMF).

Green, a native of Japan, moved to the United States as a young adult.  Green graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle with B.A. in Art in 1985.

Green lives on the Big Island of Hawaii with her husband Stephen, and their daughters Eve and Daisy.