Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham is a writer who has also spent the last two decades working at the intersection of immigration and education. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of An American Life (2017), the critically-acclaimed A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (2024) and Immemorial (2025). Her writing regularly appears in outlets such as VQR (where she is a contributing editor), Harper's, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, New York Review of Books, New Republic, Guernica, Freeman's, Mother Jones, Orion, The Atlantic, and Lit Hub, as well as on NPR's This American Life. Lauren is the director of the Learning Lab at Oakland International High School, a school she helped found in 2007.

updated 2025