David Lazar was born in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, New York. He went to Bennington College and did graduate degrees at Stanford and Syracuse and his Ph.D. at the University of Houston, working with Hayden Carruth, Phillip Booth, Ray Carver and Phillip Lopate.
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