About

Kathryn O'Shea-Evans writes about design, travel, and food from her home base in Colorado's Front Range. A contributing editor at House Beautiful magazine, her work is frequently published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and numerous other publications; click here for a perpetually outdated list of her favorite stories. She is the co-author (with Max Humphrey) of LODGE: An Indoorsy Tour of America’s National Parks (April 2023) and has co-authored many other titles for Abrams, Gibbs Smith, Monacelli and Rizzoli New York, including Mark D. Sikes’ More 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.