S. Claire Conroy

S. Claire Conroy is an award-winning architecture and design writer based in Atlanta, GA. She is editor-in-chief of Residential Design, a new national magazine for residential architects and custom builders, coming in January 2017. She is former editorial director of Residential Architect, Custom Home, and Custom Home Outdoors magazines and founder of the Residential Architect Design Awards. Her passion for houses and design is genetically linked: Her mother, Sarah Booth Conroy, was the longtime home design editor and a columnist for The Washington Post. An architecture journalism award in Sarah Booth Conroy’s honor, The Conroy Prize, is given annually by the American Institute of Architecture’s Washington, D.C., Chapter. Claire serves as a jurist for the prize. She has a degree in English from Vassar College.