Brittany Britto Garley is an award-winning journalist and features reporter who writes about culture, food, and marginalized communities. She is currently editor-in-chief of Houstonia, a quarterly magazine that produces print and online stories on news, culture, the arts, and dining in the Houston area.

Previously, Brittany served as Eater’s regional editor of Texas, where she wrote and oversaw news, features, and guides to the restaurant and dining scenes in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and beyond.

She worked as a higher education and enterprise features reporter at the Houston Chronicle and as a general assignment features blogger and reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where she wrote about arts, entertainment, local notables, travel and quirky things happening around the Baltimore area. Her most noteworthy works were award-winning pieces on Baltimore culture, including stories on the enduring local dance scene; the chicken box, a Baltimore carryout dish and its links to the Great Migration; and a piece on Baltimore’s distinct vernacular and language.

She earned an honorable mention from the 2019 Society for Features Journalism’s Excellence-in-Features Awards, received four SFJ awards in 2018 for her cultural features coverage and was named SFJ’s Penny Bender Fuchs Diversity Fellow in 2018.

Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Texas Monthly, Indian Country Today, Upworthy, Scholastic, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Toronto Star, Frederick News-Post, West Hawaii Today, the Miami Herald, and more.

Brittany is a two-time graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, with a bachelor’s in English literature and composition and a master’s in multiplatform journalism.

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