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  • Rebecca Burns

    Deputy Editor

    Burns has contributed to Atlanta magazine since 1995 and worked on staff in various capacities, including serving as editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2009. She returned to the magazine in August 2012 after several years as director of digital strategy for Emmis Publishing, the magazine's parent company. Her career merges interests in media's future and our region's past. She's the author of three books on Atlanta history and at work on her fourth—an account of the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917. She co-curated the Atlanta History Center exhibit "Atlanta Magazine, 1961-2011: 50 Years of the Changing City" and produced the accompanying award-winning digital media project. An adjunct professor of journalism at Emory University, Burns is a frequent speaker at civic and community events. She lives in Cabbagetown with her husband, the designer and illustrator James Burns.

How Southern Are We?

Birthplace of both Margaret Mitchell and Martin Luther King Jr., Atlanta embodies the collision of Old and New South myths

What does it mean to “be Southern”? An entire academic subculture is devoted to “Southern Identity,” but even its scholars haven’t reached consensus. Read More