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Sara Essex Bradley Illustrator & Author

Sara Essex Bradley has been a professional photographer since 1999, working for a range of clients including The New York Times, House Beautiful, Southern Home, New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles, Preservation, Garden and Gun and a wealth of interior design clients. She won the New Orleans Press Club Award for Still Photography Feature in 2015. She lives in New Orleans. Julia Reed is a contributing editor at Elle Décor and at Garden & Gun magazine, where she writes a regular column, 'The High & Low'. She also contributes to The Wall Street Journal, where she writes a food column, and is a frequent guest on MSNBC. Reed grew up in the Mississippi Delta and began her career at Newsweek magazine's Washington Bureau. She is the author of six books and was a contributing editor at Vogue for over twenty years. She lives in New Orleans.