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• Home design, decorating, gardening, renovation, culinary writing• Former Editor in Chief, Renovation Style• Created nation's only writer's colony devoted to culinary writing

Ann Omvig Maine is Editor in Chief of Traditional Home magazine. With over 20 years of experience as an editor in the shelter magazine category, Maine has developed a distinct editorial direction for the magazine that celebrates the pleasures of modern life through the prism of classic taste.

Traditional Home (www.traditionalhome.com) is an upscale design and decorating magazine launched in 1989. It is the largest upscale shelter magazine in the country, has a circulation of 950,000 and is published eight times a year by Meredith Corporation.

Maine began her career at Meredith in 1982 as a building editor for Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications. Maine played an integral role on the creative teams that conceptualized, produced and launched Country Home and Country Gardens magazines, where she served as executive editor and editor, respectively. In 1996, as Editor in Chief of Renovation Style, Maine revamped and defined the magazine’s distinctive before-and-after editorial and visual direction.

She currently serves on the board of directors for the Arkansas-based Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, where she directed the creation of their Culinary Suite, helping them become the nation’s only writers’ colony to recognize the genre of culinary writing.

An Iowa native, Maine graduated from Iowa State University with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and family/consumer sciences. Maine lives with her husband and daughter in an almost-restored 1907 house in Des Moines’ Owls Head Historic District. Follow her on Twitter @TradHomeChief.

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