Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold

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.

Chris Feliciano Arnold is the author of The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon (Picador 2018.) The recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California.