Frances Stead Sellers
Frances Stead Sellers
Editor

Frances Stead Sellers is the editor of Style, the cultural hub of The Washington Post with a focus on profiles, personalities, arts and ideas. Frances joined Style in August, 2011, after running The Post’s Health, Science and Environmental coverage, including the battle over health reform, the Gulf oil spill and a series of stories about military medical care that was a Pulitzer finalist. Prior to that, Frances was deputy editor of Outlook. Frances came to The Post from Civilization, the bi-monthly magazine of the Library of Congress, which she helped launch in 1994 and which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its first year.

Latest by Frances Stead Sellers

Race Matters In Deaf Communication

Sign language reflects America's history of segregation.

Sign language has racial accents

Sign language has racial accents

Sign language that African Americans use is different in some respects from that of whites.

No medal for Ann Romney’s horse

No medal for Ann Romney’s horse

Rafalca’s performance in Olympic dressage event is called accurate but uninspiring.

Dressage riders seek to show sport is more than ‘horse prancing’

Dressage riders seek to show sport is more than ‘horse prancing’

The prospect of a presidential hopeful’s horse competing for Olympic gold has brought the nation’s dressage lovers from their barns to defend an obscure sport now known, thanks to Stephen Colbert, as “competitive horse prancing.”