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David Lazar Director, Nonfiction program |
Jenny Boully |
Aviya Kushner |
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David Lazar’s books include The Body of Brooklyn (Iowa), Michael Powell: Interviews (Mississippi), Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher (Mississippi), Truth in Nonfiction (Iowa) and a book of prose poems, Powder Town (Pecan Grove). Essaying the Essay, an anthology of theoretical essays on the essay from Montaigne to the present, is forthcoming. His essays and prose poetry have appeared widely. He is the founding editor of Hotel Amerika. Several of his essays have been named “Notable Essays of the Year” by Best American Essays. He received his Ph.D. in Nonfiction and Literature from the University of Houston, and established the doctoral rogram in nonfiction writing at Ohio University before coming to Columbia College Chicago. He has taught and lectured on nonfiction and editing at the Chautauqua Institution, Goucher College, the Indiana University Writers’ Conference, Rice University, the Wexner Center, and elsewhere. |
Jenny Boully is the author of The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande, 2007), [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Books, 2006), The Body: An Essay (Essay Press, 2007 and Slope Editions, 2002), and the chapbook “Moveable Types” (Noemi Press, 2007). Her work has been anthologized in The Next American Essay, The Best American Poetry, Language for a New Century, and Great American Prose Poems. Her work has been published in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, Columbia, Verse, Seneca Review, Conduit, and other places. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and holds previous graduate degrees in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and Hollins University. She previously taught within the CUNY system and at the New School University. Born in Thailand and reared in Texas, she joined the faculty at Columbia College Chicago in 2008. |
Aviya Kushner is the author of And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning, which is forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House. The book is about the experience of reading The King James Bible for the first time after decades of reading the Bible in Hebrew. Her essays have appeared in The Wilson Quarterly, The Jerusalem Post, Partisan Review, Poets & Writers, and Lonely Planet’s Rites of Passage: Tales of Backpacking ‘Round Europe. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, and her poems have been published in Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, Passages North, The Saint Ann’s Review, and Salamander. She covers books and authors for The Jerusalem Post, and she is a contributing editor at A Public Space. She holds an MFA from The University of Iowa in nonfiction writing, an MA from Boston University’s creative writing program in poetry, a Cértificat Supérieur from the Sorbonne, and a BA from The Johns Hopkins University in the Writing Seminars and the History of Art. |
