Preston Gannaway has been a photojournalist for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire since 2003. She was named the NPPA Region 1 (New England) Photographer of the Year in 2005 and was runner-up in 2006.

Before working for the Monitor, Gannaway interned at the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Bangor Daily News. A native of North Carolina, she began her career at the Coalfield Progress in rural southwest Virginia after earning her Bachelor of Arts in fine art photography at Virginia Intermont College.

Gannaway was recently awarded first place Best Published Picture Story for newspapers under 115,000 circulation in the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism contest.