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A sixth-generation Texan, Melissa Dailey has spent most of her career deep in publication design.
After graduating from the University of Texas, she headed to New York to join the publishing
industry. She entered the profession as an editor, and, after deciding she would rather design copy
than fact-check it, emerged as an art director. Before returning to her native Austin, she was an Art
Director with Thomson Media, were she created award-winning designs for several publications.
Sarah Lewis, Beauty and Fashion Editor
Lewis is a product junkie and stylist-at-heart and has been beating on the doors of magazines,
showrooms, salons and boutiques since she could walk in heels. A third-generation Texan, sister,
daughter, aunt and accessories collector, she's been known to smuggle Salt Lick sauce via expensive
handbags into "barbecue" joints in NYC, while listening to Jack Ingram on her IPOD. Her styling
includes assisting French Vogue, British GQ, and Jennifer Lopez. When she's not on a shoot or knee-
deep in the latest beauty products, she's surrounded by girlfriends and cocktails, or horizontal at her
parent's ranch in Anderson, Texas. She lives and works with her cat and shoe collection in
Manhattan.
Nan Booth Simpson, Contributing Editor
Simpson is a fifth-generation Texan and a registered landscape architect, who specializes in
residential garden design. A member of The American Society of Landscape Architects, she has
worked on projects throughout the United States. She holds degrees from Southern Methodist
University in Fine Arts and Texas A&M University in Landscape Architecture. She has spent much of
her career writing about gardens for such journals as Southern Living, Southern Accents, and Garden
Design. She co-authored the book Great Garden Sources for Texans (with Patricia Scott McHargue),
served as a consultant to Practical Guide to Garden Design in the Time-Life Complete Gardener series
and edited The Naturalist's Garden for Globe Pequot Press. She practices in Dallas through her
company Season-by-Season.
Mark Sullivan, Senior Features Contributor
Native Houstonian with Yankee roots, he's lived most of life as a half breed, splitting time between
the North East and Texas. He attended prep school in Massachussetts and college at UT Austin (but
every summer of college on Martha's Vineyard). Took a brief respite from the schizophrenia-inducing
lifestyle and took his show on the road to Mexico and Spain for ESL teaching stints, before returning
to the U.S. and landing in NYC after graduate school. In NYC, he worked in the Latin American
division of a boutique investment firm before coming to his senses to leave and chase long-held
dreams of becoming a writer. Managed to talk a way into a job at CNN, writing and producing their
signature tech show "Digital Jam" before its cancellation during the Dot.Bomb years of 2000-2001.
Forced into writing "Intimate Portraits," biographies for women on Lifetime "television for women...
and the gay men who love them"), he expanded his experiences from basic cable into magazines.
After 9/11, the allure of the big city life diminished, and a major re-prioritization brought him back to
his beloved Austin ("mecca") where he hopes to stay for good. Currently working on autobiography:
"I'll Burn that Bridge when I Get There: The Mark D. Sullivan Story," which he hopes to personally
see on the Lifetime network one day.
Carolyn Farb, Contributing Writer
Farb is a native Texan, a social and philanthropic trailblazer, author, art collector and true Houston
icon. She has raised over $30,000,000 for more than 100 different charitable causes. Her honors
include the Illustrious Modern Award from the Wedgwood Society, the YWCA Woman of the Year, the
Children's Medallion of Honor from UNICEF and induction in the Philanthropy Hall of Fame. She
received an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Northwood University and the Challenger Seven
Award from The Challenger Center. She also helped establish The Carolyn Farb Permanent Endowed
Lectureship in Neurofibromatosis at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Farb shared her fundraising
secrets in How to Raise Millions, Helping Others, Having a Ball. Her second book, QuintessentialBRILLIANT 1 1406 Camp Craft Road #110 Austin, Texas 78746 P 512.327.9900 F 512.327.9907 info@brilliantmagazine.com
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