Megy Karydes

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Specialty Subjects : health and wellness
general lifestyle
sustainability / environment
travel / Chicago / Midwest
social justice
food justice
food & beverage
retail / business / entrepreneurship
design / architecture

Book Credits : 50 Ways To More Calm, Less Stress: Scientifically Proven Ways to Relieve Anxiety and Boost Your Mental Health Using Your Five Senses Fodor's Chicago 25 Best (full-color travel guide; published December 2020) Good Decisions, Better Outcomes: A Simple, Five-Step Process to Help You Make Important and Difficult Decisions with Confidence and Clarity (acted as a book coach; published April 2021) https://read.sourcebooks.com/non-fiction/9781728262529-50-ways-to-more-calm-less-stress-tp.html https://www.amazon.com/Fodors-Chicago-Full-color-Travel-Guide/dp/1640974873/ref=asc_df_1640974873/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=564700937500&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5399831225937022383&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021744&hvtargid=pla-1638779236031&psc=1&mcid=493759ac5bf23550a6495d331ab0820f&gclid=CjwKCAiA29auBhBxEiwAnKcSqsKPC_KnQerl1jPq3COVmdWS1KbwURWd4LqZxL_vxmbLNXn0SMeSWxoCGOYQAvD_BwE https://www.amazon.com/Good-Decisions-Better-Outcomes-Confidence/dp/1647043107

Enter your professional bio here : Megy Karydes is an award-winning Chicago-based freelance writer, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a marketing and communications consultant for national and international non-profit organizations. Her non-fiction book, 50 Ways to More Calm, Less Stress: Scientifically Proven Ways to Relieve Anxiety and Boost Your Mental Health Using Your Five Senses, was published December 2023 by Sourcebooks. Her writing specialties include: health and wellness general lifestyle sustainability / environment travel / Chicago / Midwest social justice food justice food & beverage retail / business / entrepreneurship design / architecture Her byline has appeared in the New York Times, Architectural Digest PRO, Eating Well, Cottage Style, The Atlantic's CityLab, National Geographic's The Plate, Politico, USA Today, Rodale's Organic Life, Midwest Living magazine, Sierra Club, Chicago Tribune, Fortune.com, Forbes.com, Chicago Health magazine, and several trade magazines. Find her work at MegyKarydes.com She's active on social media and often engages with followers who read and share her work on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/megy.karydes), Instagram (@megykarydes), and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/megykarydes/). Megy has an English Literature and a Women's Studies degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MBA in Marketing from DePaul University. She stays active by trying to keep up with her two adult children and marathon-running, long-distance bicycle-riding husband. She may not be able to run as fast as her husband, but he has yet to beat her at air hockey, so she has that going for her. https://read.sourcebooks.com/non-fiction/9781728262529-50-ways-to-more-calm-less-stress-tp.html

Writing Credits : New York Times, Architectural Digest PRO, Eating Well, Cottage Style, The Atlantic’s CityLab, National Geographic’s The Plate, Politico, USA Today, Rodale’s Organic Life, Midwest Living magazine, Sierra Club, Chicago Tribune, Fortune.com, Forbes.com, Chicago Health magazine, and several consumer and trade publications.

Awards and Recognition : First Place in the Illinois Woman's Press Association (IWPA) 's 2026 Mate E. Palmer Professional Communications Contest in the Specialty Articles: Education category. https://www.linkedin.com/company/iwpa---illinois-woman%27s-press-association/

Skills (Select all that apply) : Annual reports, Blog posts, Books, Content marketing, Feature writing, Ghostwriting, Media relations, News releases, Op-Ed, Profiles, Communications strategy, Project management, Publicity, Articles, Advertorials, Brochures, Case studies, Coaching, Conference/meeting coverage, Donor communications, E-books, Essays, Fundraising appeals, News, Publication management, SEO, Social media, Web copy

List any memberships you have with other organizations : Association of Ghostwriters (AOG)
Illinois Woman’s Press Association (IWPA)
National Federation of Press Women (NFPW)
Sisters in Crime Chicagoland (SINCC)