Emily DePrang is acontributor at The Quorum Report. Previously, she was a staff writer at The Texas Observer where she covered public health and criminal justice. Her reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, Black Book, Bitch Magazine and others. The former nonfiction editor of the Sonora Review, DePrang has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona and a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2013, DePrang won the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists for public service in magazine journalism. She lives in Houston.

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Against Stigma: Writing Responsibly About Mental Illness

Smart reporting on mental health makes an effort to avoid stigmatizing people with mental illness. Here are a few solutions one reporter found especially helpful in covering the subject in Texas, where the state's largest jail became its largest mental health facility.