Connie Kuhns has a forty-year history as an essayist, journalist, photographer and broadcaster. Her essay Strange Women (Geist 95), about women in Vancouver's early punk scene, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Last Day in Cheyenne (Geist 84) was named a 'Notable Essay of 2012' in the Best American Essay Series and a finalist for a Western Magazine Award, and other essays have been finalists in publications ranging from the LA Review to Prism International to the New York Times Modern Love column and the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize.

Her photographs have been published in the Washington Post, the Independent UK, Globe and Mail, Geist, Herizons, and illustrated her interviews and essays, album and CD covers. In 2021, she was a finalist for the Salt Spring Island National Arts Prize, receiving the award for Outstanding Work by a Salt Spring Artist for her photograph "Canadian Farmhouse".

For fifteen years, Kuhns was the producer and host of the radio show Rubymusic on CFRO Radio, Vancouver, later with a corresponding stage at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Her interviews and commentaries have been published/produced in Geist, the Georgia Straight, Hot Wire, Fuse, Herizons, CBC Television, CBC Radio, the Vancouver Sun, the Province and a host of other periodicals and anthologies. She is a recipient of the Dan MacArthur Award of Merit for Excellence in Radio News Broadcasting. A collection of her music journalism Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture was published in 2023 by Caitlin Press.