Lauren Markham

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| name = Lauren Markham

| image = Lauren Markham at AWP 2025 02 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Markham at AWP 2025

| education = Vermont College of Fine Arts

| occupation = Journalist, writer

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Lauren Markham is an American journalist, and writer.

Life

She graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts.{{Cite web |date=2023-08-24 |title=Lauren Markham {{!}} Policy Analysis for California Education |url=https://edpolicyinca.org/about/authors/lauren-markham |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=edpolicyinca.org |language=en}}

She was an editor at Virginia Quarterly Review,{{Cite web |title=Lauren Markham |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/lauren-markham |website=pulitzercenter.org}}{{Cite web |title=Lauren Markham |url=https://www.vqronline.org/people/lauren-markham |website=vqronline.org}} Her work appeared in Mother Jones,{{Cite web |title=Lauren Markham |url=https://www.motherjones.com/author/lauren-markham/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}

She teaches at Ashland University, St. Mary’s College of California, and the University of San Francisco.{{Cite web |title=Lauren Markham {{!}} University of San Francisco |url=https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/lauren-markham |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=www.usfca.edu |language=en}}

Works

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  • The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, Crown, 2017.{{Cite web |last=Meyer |first=Lily |date=September 16, 2017 |title=These 'Far Away Brothers' Remake Themselves In America |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/09/16/548664446/these-far-away-brothers-remake-themselves-in-america |website=National Public Radio}}
  • A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging, Riverhead Books, 2024.{{Cite news |date=2024-02-22 |title=Review {{!}} Is it possible to tell a new story about migrants? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/02/24/map-future-ruins-markham-review/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |last=Hansen |first=Suzy |date=2024-02-13 |title=No One Is Prepared for a New Era of Global Migration |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/02/map-of-future-ruins-lauren-markham-book-review/677407/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Szalai |first=Jennifer |date=2024-02-14 |title=A Greek Refugee Camp Went Up in Flames. The Aftermath Was Even Worse. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/books/review/lauren-markham-a-map-of-future-ruins.html |access-date=2024-02-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=2024-02-23 |title=The Place You Now Live: On Lauren Markham's "A Map of Future Ruins" |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-place-you-now-live-on-lauren-markhams-a-map-of-future-ruins |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}

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