"An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated love."
-- Ms. Magazine
GLBT nonfiction book award. I am also a creative writing teacher specializing in literary nonfiction. I teach in the Graduate School of Liberal Studies MFA Program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Welcome to my Web site. |
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NEWS An excerpt of my essella APOCALYPSE, darling will appear in the March issue of the SENECA REVIEW, in their special issue On the Lyric Body. [The term essella is my designation for the novella-length lyric essay sequence.] My essay "Geographical Solutions. [A map of the Middle West with insets, past and current]" appears in the the Fall 2009 issue of Ecotone. My essay "On A Clear Day, Catalina" recently won the Crab Orchard Review John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. Watch for my new work in the Fall 2009 issues of the Seattle Review and the Spring 2010 issues of New Ohio Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Hotel Amerika . Have I already told you my worst-bookstore-reading-ever saga? If not, or if you'd like to experience the story again in print, please check out Robin Hemley's book tour disaster collection on the blog for his new book DO OVER.. I have just been named a CONTRIBUTING EDITOR for the AWP WRITER'S CHRONICLE. I will present a session entitled The Art of Autogeography as part of THE LOFT MEMOIR WRITING FESTIVAL running Saturday & Sunday, May 16 & 17 2009 at Open Book in Minneapolis.
FEATURED PRESENTER at AWP CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 2009 AWP Reading:THE LOFT MENTOR SERIES 30TH ANNIVERSARY READING. Charles Baxter, Barrie Jean Borich, C.J. Hribal, Scott Russell Sanders, Sun Yung Shin, Wang Ping, AWP Bookfair: RIDING SHOTGUN BOOK SIGNING FEATURING: Barrie Jean Borich --Heid Erdrich --Diane Glancy--Kathryn Kysar--Sheila O'Connor --Shannon Olson--Carrie Pomeroy--Sun Yung Shin --Morgan Grayce Willow, AWP Panel: MIDWEST CONFIDENTIAL Barrie Jean Borich, Ed Bok Lee, Ander Monson, Andre Perry, Ira Sukrungruang, Cheryl Strayed. Who writes from the actual, gritty, blistering, contradictory middle of America, and how do writers working from an un-sentimentalized Midwest engage with home terrain? What do Midwestern writers writing about race, class, sexuality, migration, environment, identity, and the body have to say about the push-pull between urban and rural, the stacked and the spacious, history and reinvention, industry and technology, anti-stereotype and stereotype? --- I was a Spring 2008 featured author and mentor in the 2007-08 Mentor Series at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. I presented at the 2008 AWP Conference in NYC. I joined nonfiction writers Gretchen Legler (On the Ice), Mary Cappello (Awkward), Amy Hoffman (An Army of Ex-Lovers), Catherine Reid (Coyote) and Lori Soderlind (Chasing Montana) on a panel entitled We Will Be Citizens: The Insistent Voice of Lesbian Nonfiction. In November 2007 I read in Iowa City at the Graywolf Press Reading, along with Sven Birkerts, Albert Goldbarth, Robin Hemley, Paul Lisicky and Ander Monson at the NonfictioNOW Conference on the campus of the University of Iowa. I also moderated, as well as contributed to, a panel at NonfictioNow entitled Bodies, Spaces, Memories. The panel included Suzanne Antonetta, David Shields, Paul Lisicky and Mary Cappello.
--- CONTACT BARRIE: barrie[AT]barriejeanborich[DOT]net
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