Maria Streshinsky, Editor-In-Chief, Miller-McCune
Maria Streshinsky comes to Miller-McCune from The Atlantic in Washington, D.C., where for four years she served as managing editor, responsible for editorial production of the 154-year-old magazine. Her responsibilities included managing a staff of more than 25 editors, art directors and interns; editing a variety of stories; and managing the editorial workflow for each issue. She developed The Atlantic's Fiction-for-Kindle program with Amazon, working with such authors as Christopher Buckley, Joyce Carol Oates, and Paul Theroux. In 2009 she won the Atlantic Media Company 2009 Chairman's Award, for editing excellence. Before The Atlantic, Maria spent two years at the U.S. Department of the Interior as a program analyst working on Indian Affairs issues. After graduating from University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Comparative Literature in 1991, she began a career in magazine journalism with VIA, the AAA magazine in San Francisco. She was managing editor before leaving to do contract work as a freelance writer, editor and consultant for, among others, Mother Jones, Washingtonian, American Heritage and the San Francisco Examiner.