Renee Hansen

Creative Nonfiction, Literature, First Year Writing

Renee Lynn Hansen is an associate professor in the English Department of Columbia College where she teaches nonfiction in the Creative Writing Program.  Her essays and prose poetry have appeared in Poem Memoir Story, Rhino, HLLQ, Hawai’i Review, Contrary, and other journals and magazines.  (Her recent publications are under the name Re’ Lynn Hansen.)  She is also a photographer and combines image with word; this work has been featured in Calyx and Fifth Wednesday journals.  Her short stories have been included in various anthologies.  Her novel, Take Me to the Underground, published by Crossing Press, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. 

She is the editor of South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art.  She coordinated the Introduction to Literature Program from 2000 through 2003.  She coordinated the Creative Nonfiction and Professional Writing Programs in 2003-2004.  She teaches a variety of courses in the Creative Writing Nonfiction Program including workshops in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction: Writing Memoir and the South Loop Review: Magazine Production class.
 
Office Location: English Department, Room 516, 33 E. Congress

Office Phone: 312-369-8106.

Email: rhansen@colum.edu

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