Stacey Freed

For nearly a decade, Stacey Freed was a senior editor at Remodeling, published by the Washington-D.C.-based Hanley Wood. Since 2013 she has been freelancing for national trade and consumer publications. You can find her bylines in The New York Times, several Better Homes and Gardens and USA Today special interest publications; Realtor magazine; This Old House; Real Simple; Family Dog; Net Assets; Professional Builder; and Custom Builder; and online at AARP; Forbes.com; House Logic, Construction Dive, Trulia, and Zillow, among other places.

Freed has won a Neal Award for specialized journalism and several awards from the American Society of Business Publications Editors. She holds a MFA from George Mason University. Her essay, “Tourist No More,” published in She Can Find Her Way: Women Travelers at Their Best (Upper Hand Press, 2017), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is also co-author of Her book Hiking the Catskills (Falcon Guides/Globe Pequot, 2022). 

Her education as a fiction writer helps inform her journalism with storytelling techniques, excellent interview skills and the ear for a good quote. Editors have told her that she makes complicated subjects easy to read, and they appreciate her attention to detail — and deadlines.