David Lazar

Creative Nonfiction

David Lazar’s books include The Body of Brooklyn and Truth in Nonfiction (both Iowa), Powder Town (Pecan Grove); Michael Powell: Interviews and Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher (both Mississippi). Forthcoming is Essaying the Essay from Welcome Table Press. His essays and prose poems have appeared widely in anthologies such as Understanding the Essay, An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Sentence), and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, and magazines such as Gulf Coast, Black Clock, Sentence, Denver Quarterly, Best of the Prose Poem, Southwest Review, etc. and five of his essays have been “Notable Essays of the Year” according to Best American Essays. He created the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in Nonfiction writing at Ohio University, and directed the creation of the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika, now in its tenth year. Its last issue was devoted solely to aphorisms.

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

Office Phone: (312) 369-8835. 

Email: dlazar@colum.edu

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