Born in 1951 in New York City, where she currently resides. Conner has received two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships (1984 and 1985), which she spent photographing in China. 

Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico: The National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, 1992)