David Lazar

Creative Nonfiction

David Lazar's books include The Body of Brooklyn (Iowa), Michael Powell: Interviews (Mississippi), Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher (Mississippi) and a forthcoming anthology, Truth in Nonfiction (Iowa), and book of prose poems, Powder Town (Pecan Grove). His essays and prose poem have appeared in The Southwest Review, The Ohio Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Arts & Letters, Best of the Prose Poem, Sentence, Denver Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, and other journals and magazines. Four of his essays have been named Notable Essays of the Year by Best American Essays. Before coming to Columbia, where he is coordinating the creation of a nonfiction concentration, he taught for sixteen years at Ohio University, where he created one of five doctoral programs in the country in creative nonfiction.

Office Location:  English Department, Suite 322, 3rd floor, 33 E. Congress  

Office Phone: (312) 344-8835. 

Email: dlazar@colum.edu

Mailing Address: 
David Lazar
Department of English 
Columbia College of Chicago 
600 So. Michigan Avenue 
Chicago, IL 60605