Lauren Markham is an award-winning writer based in California whose work regularly appears in outlets such as Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times and the Virginia Quarterly Review, where she is a contributing editor. She is also the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life (2017), A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (2024) and Immemorial (2025).