Kathleen Hackett

Kathleen Hackett is a contributing editor at Elle Décor and writes frequently for Veranda, Architectural Digest, InStyle, Country Living, and Martha Stewart Living, where she spent four years as the executive book editor. Hackett has also ghostwritten more than 15 books on subjects from interior design to floral arranging and cooking. She is the coauthor, with her husband, artist Stephen Antonson, of Home from the Hardware Store and coauthor with her sister Mary Ann Young of The Salvage Sisters. She lives in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, with her husband and their two boys.