About Lauren Markham
Lauren Markham was an American journalist and writer.
Lauren Markham is an American journalist and writer.
Markham graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was an editor at Virginia Quarterly Review and her work appeared in Mother Jones.
Markham teaches at Ashland University, St. Mary’s College of California, and the University of San Francisco. Her book A Map of Future Ruins was the runner-up for the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for non-fiction.
Works The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, Crown, 2017. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging, Riverhead Books, 2024.
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