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.

  • The Curse of Oil

    Crude World is a piece of firstclass reporting as well as an article of faith. Subtitled c, a more apt summation would be, “Oil [...] Full Story

  • Documented Immigrants

    Early this August, I took a Greyhound bus from Tucson to Houston and back. It was a 24-hour trip that impressed my middle-class family [...] Full Story

  • Review

    A book of short stories is a curious thing. Each component story could be anything. In one, the protagonist may be a meth-addled architect [...] Full Story

  • A Presidential Audience

    Driving south on TX-288 from Houston, you’re almost to the Pearland exit when you see them: half a dozen giant heads of former presidents [...] Full Story

  • Bubbles, Burst

    Margaret Atwood is a genius, no question. She’s the best-selling author of 35 books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, a winner of the Booker [...] Full Story