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Melanie Lasoff Levs

Melanie Lasoff Levs is a freelance writer and editor for local, regional and national media outlets. She is an Atlanta correspondent for The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, and her work appears in publications including PINK magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, The Daily Report and GC South magazine, Atlanta magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She also writes and edits for non-profit organizations such as the Arthritis Foundation, Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Forte Foundation. Melanie’s work also appears on the websites Kudzu.com and Orbitz.com. Previously, Melanie was editor of Atlanta Jewish Life, a Jewish community lifestyle magazine then published by Leader Publishing Group Inc. During her 2 ½ years of leadership, the magazine won several awards from the Magazine Association of the Southeast. Melanie’s career includes editing jobs at the Arthritis Foundation and Primedia Business Magazines and Media, a national trade magazine publishing company with an office in Atlanta. She arrived in Atlanta in 1995 to be a staff writer for the Atlanta Jewish Times newspaper, where she created a monthly section written by and for Atlanta Jewish teens, and won three national journalism awards. Melanie, a 1994 University of Maryland College of Journalism graduate, was the Press Club program chair for six years. Her book, High School Graduation: A Time Capsule Journal, was published by Antioch Publishing in March 2000, and she currently is working on her first novel.