Past Event
Headshot of Visiting Writer Lauren Markham on a neutral background.
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and School of Liberal Arts (SOLA)

Afternoon Craft Conversation with Lauren Markham
Part of the Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series

Date & Time

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Location (On-campus)

Soda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge
1928 St. Marys Road
Moraga, CA 94575

About

Join SMC's Creative Writing Department in the Claeys Lounge of the Soda Center for a Craft Conversation with visiting writer Lauren Markham, author of A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belongingas she discusses her art, life, and writing process. This event is free, open to the public, and ADA Accessible. Light refreshments will be served.

Lauren Markham is the author of the 2017 award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. Her essays and reportage regularly appears in outlets such as the Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. She has spent over fifteen years working at the intersection of education and immigration. Her next book, A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging, is forthcoming from Riverhead in Spring 2024.

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