April Dembosky

April Dembosky is the health correspondent for the NPR station in San Francisco, KQED Public Radio, where she covers altered states of mind, including schizophrenia, drug-induced psychosis, and postpartum mental illness. She is the recipient of a national Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi award for science reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists and a Carter Center Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her audio documentary about music and memory, Soundtrack of Silence, was optioned to be made into a feature film by Paramount Pictures. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Atlantic, and Slate.