Conrad J. Storad is the author and editor of more than 50 science and nature books, including many national award-winning titles. The Bat Book earned a Will Rogers Medallion Award in 2017 for Best Western Fiction for Children/Illustrated and his Monster in the Rocks was selected by the National Center for the Book to represent Arizona as part of the "52 Great Reads" program at the National Book Festival in 2014. Other award-winning titles include Fang and Stinger (An Arachnid Story), Arizona Way Out West & Wacky, and Arizona Way Out West & Witty-Library Edition. Arizona Way Out West & Witty, co-authored with Lynda Exley, was named "One Book Arizona for Kids" in 2012 by the Arizona State Library. The book was distributed state-wide as part of Arizona's Centennial Legacy Project. In 2006, Storad's Don't Call Me Pig! (A Javelina Story) was selected by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as part of her program to promote reading. More than 93,000 Arizona first-graders received a special edition copy.

In 2001, Libraries Limited and the Arizona Library Association honored him with the Judy Goddard Award as "Arizona Children's Author of the Year."Conrad has read stories to more than 1 million students and teachers and conducted writing workshops and presentations at more than 1,500 schools, libraries, and author events. He worked at Arizona State University for more than 24 years, writing and editing stories about science and scholarship. Prior to ASU, Conrad worked as a reporter, editor, and general manager for The Barberton Herald newspaper in northeast Ohio. He was a science/medical writer for the U.S. National Cancer Institute and a science/feature writer at Kent State University. Conrad earned a degree in mass media communication from the University of Akron and a master's degree in mass communication/ science journalism from Arizona State University.

In 2000, he was inducted to the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism Hall of Fame.