Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham is a writer based in Berkeley, California, focusing on issues related to youth, migration, the environment, and her home state of California. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, Orion, Pacific Standard, Harper’s, California Sunday, The New Republic, Guernica, and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. Her book about youth migration from El Salvador, The Far Away Brothers, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Selection and was longlisted for a PEN America Award.