Distinguished Visting Writers Series: David Lazar

David Lazar is the author of three essay collections — I’ll Be Your Mirror, Occasional Desire, and The Body of Brooklyn — and the prose poetry collection Powder Town. The editor of several anthologies on the essay — among them Truth in Nonfictionand After Montaigne — he also is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika. Lazar teaches in the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago.