Reading by Two Recent Graduates with Major Books

A reading by Lauren Markham, ‘06, and Sierra Murdoch ‘09.5, who return to Middlebury to co-teach their J-term class, “Writing What You Don’t Know: The Ethics and Craft of Narrative Journalism.”

Recent alumnae as well as Middlebury Fellows in Environmental Journalism, Markham and Murdoch have recently published or are about to publish major books.

Markham’s The Faraway Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, was hailed by the New York Times as “impeccably timed, intimately reported and beautifully expressed.”

Murdoch’s book, scheduled to be published by Spiegel & Grau in 2019, covers a murder and the consequent transformation of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Reservation, located in North Dakota’s fracking fields.