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Join the Department of History and the 黑料正能量 community in welcoming听Lauren Markham on campus for a talk about听wwo young migrants and the making of an American life.

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Lauren Markham

A fiction writer, essayist and journalist, her work most often concerns issues related to youth, migration, the environment and her home state of California. Markham is the author of (Crown,听September 2017). The Far Away Brothers听was the winner of the , the Northern California Book Award, and a California Book Award Silver Prize. It was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Selection, a听New York Times Book Critics' Top Book of 2017, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the听L.A. Times Book Award听and longlisted for a Pen America Literary Award in Biography.听

Her work has appeared in outlets such as听VQR (where she is a Contributing Editor), Harper's,The Guardian, The New York Review of Books,听The New Republic, Guernica,听Freeman's, Mother Jones, Orion, The Atlantic, Lithub, California Sunday, Narrative Magazine,听The Best American Travel Writing 2019,听and on听This American Life.听She has been awarded fellowships from The Mesa Refuge, UC Berkeley, Middlebury College, the McGraw Center, the French American Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.听

In addition to writing, Markham has spent fifteen years working at the intersection of education and immigration. She teaches writing at the Ashland University MFA in Writing Program, Left Margin Lit, and the University of San Francisco.

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