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Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham
Lauren Markham is the author of A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging, and The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, which was awarded the Northern California Book Award, The California Book Award Silver Medal, and the Ridenhour Prize. Her essays and journalism have appeared in outlets such as The New York Times Magazine, Guernica, Harper's, Freeman's, The New York Review of Books, and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. Her third book, Immemorial, is available from Transit Books.


Lost and Found: Why I Almost Quit Journalism (and What Brought Me Back)

Lauren Markham: “Becoming lost within my profession helped me find my way back again.”
July 26, 2024  By Lauren Markham
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Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

“My ancestors had left Greece; now, a hundred years later, millions were desperate to get here.”
February 13, 2024  By Lauren Markham
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For the Love of Mail: Letter Writing
in a Pandemic

Lauren Markham on the Daily Magic of the US Postal System
September 4, 2020  By Lauren Markham
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The Last Train Trip Before Everything Changed

Lauren Markham on Solitude, Snow, and Finding Reasons to Write
April 6, 2020  By Lauren Markham
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The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won’t Die

Lauren Markham on Two Very Different Stories of Manifest Destiny
June 10, 2019  By Lauren Markham
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Life in a Prison Turned Hostel

Memories of Terror and Oppression in Ljubljana
August 3, 2015  By Lauren Markham
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