Stacey Freed

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Specialty Subjects : Construction, remodeling, architecture, housing, real estate, anything related to the home or the built environment

Book Credits : Hiking the Catskills, (Globe Pequot, August 2022)

Enter your professional bio here : 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.

Writing Credits : AARP; ApartmentGuide.com; Beautiful Kitchens & Baths; Building Performance Institute; Cabin Living; Civilized Life; Construction DIVE; Cottage Style; Custom Builder; Democrat & Chronicle; Daily Paws; DIY magazine; Environments for Aging; Family Dog; Forbes.com; Garden Design; Green Living; HOME; House Logic; InPaint; International Jewish Monthly; Landscape Architecture Magazine; Lighting Magazine; Moment; Modern Woman; NASA; Natural Stone Institute; Net Assets; The New York Times; OneZero/Medium; Pet Guide; Professional Builder; Professional Remodeler; Products; Real Simple; Realtor Magazine; Remodeling; Rent.com; Rochester Magazine; Sweeten.com; This Old House; Thrivent Magazine; Timber Home Living; Tiny Homes; Trulia; The Washington Post; Window & Door Magazine

Awards and Recognition : ASJA's 2024 Annual Writing Award Winner B2B Blog or Article: ''Safe Bets: When It Comes to School Safety Technology, What Actually Works? And What Is Worth the Investment?'' Net Assets, July/August 2023 Fellowship, Age Boom Academy, Columbia Journalism School & Columbia Aging Center ''Raising the Roof: America's Housing Crisis and Our Longer Lives,'' 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee, ''Tourist No More,'' She Can Find Her Way: Women Travelers at Their Best, 2017 Neal Award Winner, ''A Spark from Flint,'' Remodeling , Oct. 2013 Folio Eddie Awards Winner and Neal Award Winner, entire issue Remodeling April 2013 National Feature Award from American Society of Business Publications Editors for ''Survey Says,'' Remodeling , July 2012 Neal Award Finalist, ''Campaign Season,'' Remodeling , Oct. 2011 Bronze award, feature article from American Society of Business Publications Editors, ''Back from the Brink,'' Remodeling , July 2007 First place, Irene Leach Memorial, Ana Cogswell Wood Prize for Short Story, ''Check Out,'' 1998 First Place, Excellence in Editorial Writing, American Jewish Press Association, Simon Rockower Award, ''Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is,'' Moment magazine, 1996.

Skills (Select all that apply) : Blog posts, Case studies, Content marketing, Feature writing, News, Q&A, SEO, Web copy, E-books, Profiles, Articles, Editing, Essays