Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham
Markham at AWP 2025
EducationVermont College of Fine Arts
OccupationsJournalist, writer

Lauren Markham is an American journalist and writer.

Markham graduated from Middlebury College and received an M.F.A from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was an editor at Virginia Quarterly Review and her work appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The Atlantic and Mother Jones.

Markham teaches at St. Mary’s College of California, and the University of San Francisco. She is the author of The Far Away Brothers, A Map of Future Ruins, which was the runner-up for the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for non-fiction, and Immemorial.

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  4. ↑ "Lauren Markham". Mother Jones. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Lauren Markham | University of San Francisco". www.usfca.edu. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
  6. ↑ "2025 Awards – Dayton Literary Peace Prize". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Retrieved September 28, 2025.
  7. ↑ Meyer, Lily (September 16, 2017). "These 'Far Away Brothers' Remake Themselves In America". National Public Radio.
  8. ↑ "Review | Is it possible to tell a new story about migrants?". Washington Post. February 22, 2024. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
  9. ↑ Hansen, Suzy (February 13, 2024). "No One Is Prepared for a New Era of Global Migration". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
  10. ↑ Szalai, Jennifer (February 14, 2024). "A Greek Refugee Camp Went Up in Flames. The Aftermath Was Even Worse". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
  11. ↑ "The Place You Now Live: On Lauren Markham's "A Map of Future Ruins"". Los Angeles Review of Books. February 23, 2024. Retrieved February 27, 2024.