Alexandra Hall grew up on Boston’s South Shore and studied at Wheaton College and Le Cordon Bleu Institute in Paris. After several years as a senior editor for DailyCandy and editor for Fashion Boston, she is now back at Boston Magazine as executive editor for lifestyle.

Together, Alex and Michael have written for publications including Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit, Town & Country Travel, New England Travel, Yankee, Boston Magazine, Elle Decor, Continental, Business Traveler, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and AlterNet. They were married on the rustic shores of Maine's Moosehead Lake, where Michael wore a kilt and Alex donned red heels and white feathers. They now live in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood with their cat, Catsby, and their six-year-old son Zachary and four-year-old daughter Cleo, who have fast become two of the best-traveled kids in the world.