Mojie Crigler is the author of Get Me Through Tomorrow: A Sister’s Memoir of Brain Injury and Revival (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) and co-author of Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases (Hopkins Press, 2019). Her short fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Drunken Boat, Hunger Mountain, Critical Flame, The Rumpus, Glimmer Train Bulletin, Glimmer Train, Los Angeles Review, Arkansas Review, Chesapeake Reader, The Believer, The Gut, Thumbnail, Bona Fide Books’ anthology, Tahoe Blues, and Scientific American’s blog. She’s received the Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction, a Pushcart nomination, and several honorary mentions and second places.
As a developmental editor, Mojie specializes in books about health and medicine.
As a writer, she has worked for the NBA, PBS, Wellesley College, Stanford University, Bryn Mawr Communications, The END Fund, Gentle Giant, and others.
From 2009-2016, Mojie and her brother, Jason, spoke about Jason’s recovery from a brain hemorrhage at conferences and colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Life. Support. Music. is a documentary about Jason’s arduous journey back to health.
During the pandemic, Mojie created a podcast—Write Your COVID Story—to help patients and clinicians write about their experiences.
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