I'm an editor and journalist, but I also consult for home and design clients, write books and marketing materials and produce and host videos and panels on design-related topics. I've ghostwritten a decorating book or two and make the occasional TV appearance.

Email me at sophie (at) sophiedonelson (dot) com and follow me on Twitter — @sophiedow.

In addition to being regularly published in magazines and newspapers (see Articles) I'm working on several projects including The Editor at Large, a revolutionary new website for the design community. Last summer I served as Editor in Chief of Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, a seasonal shelter magazine focusing on the South Fork of Long Island--and also the publication with which I began my publishing career in 2002.

Up until a few years ago, I was a staff editor-writer. In late 2007 I briefly held a senior editor post at Blueprint, the late women's lifestyle magazine published by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Prior to that, I was senior writer at Elle Decor where I wrote and edited articles about decorating, art, trends and interior designers. In 2004 and 2005 I was executive editor of CITY magazine, a national lifestyle magazine a repeat ASME winner, where I oversaw all the words. My first gig in NYC was at Hamptons Cottages & Gardens magazine, where I cut my teeth in decorating with an editorial dream team: Newell Turner, now Editor in Chief of House Beautiful, and Lockhart Steele, founder of Curbed.com and Eater.com. (Yes, the dream team comprised two people.)

My articles have appeared in Interior Design, Elle, Departures, Manhattan, Martha Stewart Living, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, InStyle, I.D., Time Out New York, Daily Candy and others. And I've edited and contributed to custom-published magazines and marketing materials for clients such as W Hotels/Starwood, Corcoran Sunshine, Samsung, Citigroup, Macy's/Federated, Hanky Panky and Virgin Atlantic.

I spend most of my time crafting text but I also enjoy straight-up crafts. My desk doubles as a work table. (Biggest accomplishment: drafting my wedding dress.) The subjects I write about have grown out of my passion for visuals, especially period architecture, textile and pattern design, and all facets of interior design. I keep tabs on trends in art, architecture, and fashion, all of which inform my ideas for stories and what to recommend to clients.

I grew up in north-central Massachusetts in a town that gets by with a single blinking yellow light. My parents are photographers-turned-silkscreeners, and my sister is an artist. (I have plenty to hang on my walls.) I graduated magna cum laude from Emerson College with a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing and moved to NYC to attend the Columbia Publishing Course in Manhattan. I found my first place on Craigslist--the maid's room of an Upper West Side classic six with generous molding. I've since graduated to a Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, two-bedroom that I share with my husband, Greg Lindsay, a journalist. It is, sadly, sans maid's room, but it has decent moldings and room for my sewing machine.