My writing has received support from the Metropolitan Regional Art Council and Everwood Farmstead Foundation. I received honorable mention in the 2023 Folio Ozzie and Eddie Awards for "body of work by a single author" for my work with Experience Life, a national health and wellness publication with a readership of more than 3 million. Here's what my editors there have to say about my work:
"Mo’s broad range of work for Experience Life speaks for itself. She’s written about chronic pain through the lens of the opioid crisis; the impact of long COVID on exercise, and the mysterious persistence of functional neurological disorders. No less fluently, she’s covered how nutrition can offset travel woes and how to sustain courage in difficult times.
Whatever the topic at hand, Perry writes with warmth, grace, and nuance. Her stories make complex topics legible and ground lighter topics in a solid foundation of research.
Perry was the first person to cover long COVID for Experience Life in late 2020. She introduced readers to what we did and didn’t know about the disorder, and rather than stoking fear, she shared what treatments functional-medicine providers were trying with their patients. In 2022, she followed up with a feature on long COVID and exercise that took the same approach. Both stories offered hope without hype; they didn’t offer easy answers but did provide readers with some lesser-known tools that might support recovery.
Perry also demonstrates impressive journalistic integrity. In early 2023, her feature on functional neurological disorders (FNDs) explored diffuse chronic pain conditions with no identifiable physical cause. Perry’s angle showed that a physical illness with a possible [brain-based] origin deserves to be treated with the same seriousness as any other.
Her willingness to cover thorny issues with compassion is what makes her more than a good reporter; she is a superb service journalist. She writes stories that bring clarity, guidance, and potentially life-changing insights about health, in a voice that’s intelligent, warm, and welcoming. We’re lucky to have her as a contributing editor."
My journalistic and creative bylines include:
My ghostwriting, copywriting and editing clients include:
"Mo’s broad range of work for Experience Life speaks for itself. She’s written about chronic pain through the lens of the opioid crisis; the impact of long COVID on exercise, and the mysterious persistence of functional neurological disorders. No less fluently, she’s covered how nutrition can offset travel woes and how to sustain courage in difficult times.
Whatever the topic at hand, Perry writes with warmth, grace, and nuance. Her stories make complex topics legible and ground lighter topics in a solid foundation of research.
Perry was the first person to cover long COVID for Experience Life in late 2020. She introduced readers to what we did and didn’t know about the disorder, and rather than stoking fear, she shared what treatments functional-medicine providers were trying with their patients. In 2022, she followed up with a feature on long COVID and exercise that took the same approach. Both stories offered hope without hype; they didn’t offer easy answers but did provide readers with some lesser-known tools that might support recovery.
Perry also demonstrates impressive journalistic integrity. In early 2023, her feature on functional neurological disorders (FNDs) explored diffuse chronic pain conditions with no identifiable physical cause. Perry’s angle showed that a physical illness with a possible [brain-based] origin deserves to be treated with the same seriousness as any other.
Her willingness to cover thorny issues with compassion is what makes her more than a good reporter; she is a superb service journalist. She writes stories that bring clarity, guidance, and potentially life-changing insights about health, in a voice that’s intelligent, warm, and welcoming. We’re lucky to have her as a contributing editor."
My journalistic and creative bylines include:
- Experience Life (contributing editor)
- The Atlantic Online
- Elemental
- Star Tribune
- Catapult
- Delta Sky Magazine
- Minnesota Monthly
- Mpls - St. Paul Magazine
- Carlson School of Management Magazine
- Advances Magazine (University of Minnesota School of Public Health)
- bMag (Bush Foundation)
- Pollen Midwest
- METRO Magazine (monthly columnist 2010-2012)
- City Pages
- Citizens' League Voice
My ghostwriting, copywriting and editing clients include:
- Agencies including Zeus Jones, I.E. Network, ArcStone, Cisneros Design and Windmill Design
- Allina Health
- AmeriPride
- Bush Foundation
- Manitoba Harvest
- Maryville University
- Minnesota Corn Growers Association
- Minnesota Council on Foundations
- National Handicap Housing Institute
- Nuvera
- Optum
- Propel Nonprofits
- Radisson
- Second Harvest Heartland
- Sunsoil
- Thrivent Financial's InFaith Foundation
- University of Minnesota School of Public Health
- University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
- UnitedHealthcare
- Volunteers of America