A magazine junkie since middle school, Kate Abney graduated from the College of Charleston in May 2007 with a B.A. in Media Studies, a minor in English and a magazine mission. During college, she served as Staff Writer, News Editor and Life Editor of her campus newspaper, where she met her magazine mentor and was first introduced to Ed, who without a doubt changed her life forever. Kate completed an editorial internship at Charleston magazine, Charleston Weddings , Charleston HOME and a custom health pub, too, cutting her journalistic teeth in fashion, art, food, home, bridal, beauty and more from the get-go. In 2006, she landed a summer position at Condé Nast, as an editorial intern in the Travel department of BRIDES magazine, and dove head-first into product research, requests, fact-checking and even a little writing for the Honeymoons section (cool!). After returning South her senior year, she became a founding editor of the College of Charleston’s first online magazine before heading West to Birmingham for a post-grad position at Time Inc.’s Southern outpost, Southern Progress Corporation, as an editorial intern at Southern Accents (a high-end home and garden magazine) and InCircle Entrée (a luxury fashion and lifestyle magazine published for Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman). While there, Kate fine-tuned her feature writing, copyediting and fact-checking skills—and a blossoming affinity for luxury media—which prepped her for her amazing current gig as Assistant Editor of high-end monthly shelter mag Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, where her projects for both print and the Web are a dream. When she’s not falling in love with city life, Kate’s likely to be visiting local shops, surveying the music scene, horseback riding or indulging her passion for painting—well, one of these days!
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