Lauren Markham is a writer based in California, whose work on social and environmental issues has appeared in outlets such as Guernica, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. She is also the author of an award-winning book, The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, and the forthcoming A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging, out in spring 2024.