Emily DePrang

Emily DePrang
Emily DePrang is a staff writer at The Texas Observer, where she covers public health and criminal justice. Her reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, Black Book, Bitch, Nerve, FHM, and others. A former nonfiction editor of the Sonora Review, DePrang has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2013, DePrang won the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists for public interest magazine journalism and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for an essay published in Fourth Genre.

  • Still Waters

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  • Occupy Houston’s Second Act

    Behind a chain-link fence in Houston’s Fourth Ward, on the ground floor of a ramshackle duplex, revolution is fomenting. Scott Gregory, a 25-year-old substitute [...] Full Story

  • Fishy History

    What do you do when you’ve made a career of cracking wise, but the things you want to write about aren’t funny anymore? If [...] Full Story

  • Metaphorically Speaking

    In I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World, best-selling author and aphorist [...] Full Story

  • Fact Over Fiction

    Jake Silverstein is painfully successful. The 35-year-old California native is editor of Texas Monthly and a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. He won a [...] Full Story