About
Margaret Foley is an editor, educator, and writer based in New York City who has worked for a variety of magazines over her career. She has freelanced for BobVila.com for roughly a decade. When she isn’t sitting in front of a laptop, she spends her time keeping her family of humans, dogs, and one cat fed and healthy and trying to prevent a 100-year-old house from falling down.
Experience
Margaret began her career at the now-shuttered Home magazine, where she wet her feet in publishing, helped produce articles about home design and maintenance, and indulged her compulsion for peeking into houses that were much nicer than she could ever afford. In subsequent years, as she worked at a science magazine, got her teaching certification, and served as a substitute teacher, Margaret and her wife worked with professionals to slowly renovate their 1920s Dutch colonial. Now that the big projects are done—two additional bathrooms, completely revamped kitchen, rebuilt sunporch, leaning garage straightened up—they’re firmly in maintenance mode.
Education
Margaret graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Bryn Mawr College and a Master of Science in education from Queens College.
