Steele Marcoux

Steele Marcoux’s design education started during her childhood in Atlanta, where she spent many afternoons with her artist mother browsing through galleries, antiques stores, and fabric showrooms. After graduating from Williams College, where Steele studied art history and played on the varsity tennis team, she worked in Washington, DC as a reporter before returning to the south to pursue a Master of Arts in American history at the University of Alabama. She is a veteran of the shelter publishing industry, having served as editor of Coastal Living, Executive Editor and Style Director at Country Living, Design Editor at Southern Living and Coastal Living. She has been a freelance writer, editor and producer for brands such as Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, Flower Magazine, HGTV Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens. Steele serves on the board of directors for the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She lives in Birmingham, AL, where she enjoys cooking for her family, volunteering at her sons’ schools, playing tennis and golf, walking her dogs, and taking her sons to browse through galleries, antiques stores, and fabric showrooms.