April Dembosky is the health correspondent for the NPR station in San Francisco, where she specializes in covering altered states of mind, from marijuana-induced psychosis to schizophrenia. Her investigative series on insurance companies sidestepping mental health laws won multiple awards, including first place in beat reporting from the national Association of Health Care Journalists. She is the recipient of numerous other prizes, including a national Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists and a Carter Center Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her audio documentary Soundtrack of Silence is currently being made into a feature film by Paramount Pictures. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times of London, The Atlantic, Slate, Mother Jones, and other publications.
While at MacDowell, Dembosky worked on revisions of her forthcoming book of nonfiction, Tell Me I'm Your Man, to be published by the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Alongside Fellow Jessie Allen, Dembosky presented during a MacDowell Downtown event while in residence.
