Margaret Foley is a writer and editor living in Portland. Her writing has appeared in Oregon Home, The Christian Science Monitor and High Country News. Her family gets nervous when she sets off to interview homeowners because when she comes back, she starts rearranging the furniture.

Lucy Hardiman is the principal of Perennial Partners, a garden design collaborative group, and writes for regional and national publications, including Horticulture Magazine. Hardiman was to the garden born and is a fifth-generation Oregon gardener who doesn’t remember a time that she didn’t want to be digging in the dirt.

Even though Portland writer Lucy Burningham has been covering home and design for more than a decade, she still delights in peeking in strangers’ cupboards and making friends with their pets. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Saveur and Sunset.

Brian Libby is a Portland-based writer, photographer, and award-winning filmmaker. He has published in The New York Times, Dwell, The Oregonian and Metropolitan Home, among others. He also is the author of Tales From the Oregon Ducks Sideline, a history of his beloved college football team that is being republished this fall.