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Clinton Smith is the editorial director of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, the city’s only monthly home and garden magazine. Under his leadership, the title has garnered numerous awards and accolades, including a Gold GAMMA for Best Design from the Magazine Association of the Southeast. In 2006, he was personally awarded the Media Award from the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Georgia Chapter.
Smith is currently the youngest member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Journalism at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), his alma mater. He is on the board of directors of the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) and is a member of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, as well as the Atlanta Press Club. Smith started at the magazine in 2000 as assistant editor. |
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Atlanta has always been “home” for Art Director Rachel Cardina, even while she earned a degree in graphic design in Birmingham and interned at Cooking Light magazine. Rachel formerly worked at Metaleap Design for Paste magazine. |
| Kate Abney completed three magazine internships and two college newspaper editorships before landing Assistant Editor at AH&L. Always an admirer of art, design and the written word, she discovered a way to merge her passions just after her 17th birthday—and never looked back. Magazine editing was the only career she’d dream of having, after all! While attending the College of Charleston, she interned at Charleston and Charleston Weddings magazines before braving New York City as an intern at BRIDES magazine. She also completed a post-grad internship with Southern Accents and Entrée magazines before discovering that Atlanta was where she’d most like to be. She loves the city’s infective energy and distinct personality, and enjoys getting to know it better when she’s not working with the best writers, designers and photographers around.
Kate has contributed to more than a dozen newspaper and magazine titles, both large and small, and has been active in the New York, Birmingham and Atlanta chapters of Ed2010. |


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