About

Kathryn O'Shea-Evans writes about design, travel, and food from her home base in Colorado's Front Range. A contributing editor at LUXE magazine, her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Architectural Digest and numerous other publications; click here for a perpetually outdated list of her favorite stories. She is the author of Merry & Chic: Your Most Magical Christmas Ever (August 2025, Gibbs Smith) and Alpine Style (September 2024, Gibbs Smith), an Anthropologie “top rated” book. O’Shea-Evans has also co-authored or ghostwritten more than a dozen books for Rizzoli New York, Abrams, Gibbs Smith, and Monacelli, including LODGE: An Indoorsy Tour of America’s National Parks (April 2023) and Mark D. Sikes’ More Beautiful and Forever Beautiful.

Kathryn is a former senior editor at the Hearst Design Group and associate editor at Travel + Leisure. She has appeared as a guest lifestyle expert on The Today Show, The Meredith Vieira Show, The Travel Channel, CBS, The Weather Channel, Fox & Friends, and MSNBC.

Kathryn holds a master’s in journalism from Harvard University’s Extension School. She is a member of the Rocky Mountain Harvard University Club, the Denver Women’s Press Club (founded in 1898), and a certified Weeki Wachee mermaid. For many years, Kathryn was a magazine journalism instructor at the Columbia Publishing Course, at Columbia University's School of Journalism.

A devoted philanthropist, she is a member of the Leadership Circle of Save the Children.

Follow her on Instagram at @KathrynOSheaEvans.