Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham is an American journalist, and writer.

Lauren Markham
Markham at AWP 2025
Education	Vermont College of Fine Arts
Occupation(s)	Journalist, writer

Life

She graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[1]

She was an editor at Virginia Quarterly Review,^[2][3] Her work appeared in Mother Jones,^[4]

She teaches at Ashland University, St. Mary’s College of California, and the University of San Francisco.^[5]

Works

Markham at the 2017 Texas Book Festival.

• The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, Crown, 2017.^[6]
• A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging, Riverhead Books, 2024.^{[7][8][9][10]}