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	ABOUT BARRIE JEAN BORICH Literary Awards Publications College and Community Teaching Lectures, Readings, and Performances Mentorship and Private Instruction Services Community and Online Writing Workshops

	About the Author Barrie Jean Borich is the author of *My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage* (Graywolf), winner of the American Library Association Gay/ Lesbian/Bisexual/ Transgender Nonfiction Book Award and finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Robert Atwan selected her essay "What Kind of King," first published in The Gettysburg Review, as a "Notable Essay of 1999" and her essay "We Do Him Our Way," published in Speakeasy was a Pushcart Prize finalist. Her first book, *Restoring the Color of Roses* (Firebrand) is a memoir set in the Calumet region of Chicago, where she grew up. Beginning Fall 2007 Borich is the creative nonfiction editor of Water~Stone Review and is currently completing work on her latest creative nonfiction book project entitled Body Geographic. She is the recipient of many literary prizes including a Bush Artist Fellowship, two Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships, a Loft McKnight Award in Creative Prose, and a Loft Mentor Award in Poetry. She was one of two writers chosen by Rosellen Brown to receive a Loft McKnight Award of Distinction, and was also among those chosen by Scott Russell Sanders to receive a Loft Creative Nonfiction Award. About her work Rosellen Brown has written, "She makes accessible (and does so in lovely sentences) emotions which I might easily find--have so often found--either clichéd or opaque. She writes...with a rare deftness, clarity and sense of humor, never strident or defensive, rather self-confident, as if she herself were curious to discover what she is thinking..." Borich has published prose and poetry in many literary journals including Water~Stone Review, Speakeasy, The Ruminator Review, The Gettysburg Review, 13th Moon, The Greenfield Review, Sinister Wisdom and Sing Heavenly Muse!, and was one of the founding editors of The Evergreen Chronicles. She will serve as a Loft Mentor Series featured author and mentor for the third time in 2008 and is currently a core member of the Graduate School of Liberal Studies MFA faculty at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She lives with her beloved, Linnea Stenson, and their two goldendoodles, Miss Dusty Springfield and Miss Rosemary Clooney, in south Minneapolis.


	Grants, Fellowships and Awards 2007 Honorable Mention, McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers 2003 Hamline Graduate Liberal Studies Outstanding Teaching and Service Award 2000 American Library Association GLBT Nonfiction Book Award 1999 Loft Career Initiative Grant 1997 Bush Artist Fellowship 1997 Award of Distinction in Creative Prose- Loft McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers (selected by Rosellen Brown) 1997 Loft Creative Nonfiction Award (selected by Scott Russell Sanders) 1995 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in Creative Prose 1994 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant 1994 Loft McKnight Award in Creative Prose 1991 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in Creative Prose 1991 Jean Keller Bouvier Award in Creative Writing, University of Minnesota 1990 Loft Creative Nonfiction Award (selected by Gloria Anzaldúa) 1990 Academy of American Poets Prize 1987-88 Loft Mentor Award in Poetry 1987 Minnesota State Arts Board Sudden Opportunity Grant

	Selected Publications Books My Lesbian Husband-Landscapes of a Marriage, Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minnesota. Fall 1999 (cloth). Paperback reprint edition , October 2000. Restoring the Color of Roses, Firebrand Books, Ithaca New York. 1993. Individual Pieces and Excerpts "When We Were In the Projects," in an anthology of new essays by daughters writing about their mothers, Minnesota Historical Society Press, forthcoming 2008. "When I Call Her My Husband," in the anthology Composing a Civic Life: A Rhetoric and Readings for Inquiry and Action, Pearson/Longman, forthcoming 2007. "What Kind of King," in the anthology Making Sense: A Real World Rhetorical Reader, Bedford's/ St. Martin's, 2005. "Unrelated by Blood" in Speakeasy, #13, Winter 2004 "We Do Them Our Way," in Speakeasy #11, May/June 2004 "Behind City Windows," in the anthology Hot and Bothered 4, Arsenal Pulp Press, November 2003. "A Mentor Series Memoir,"A View from the Loft, Summer 2003. "Shutters Ever Opening." Speakeasy #1, September 2002. "American Narratives," Hamline Magazine, May 2002. "Watershed,"short-short lyric essay, A View from the Loft, November 2001. Part of "September 11, 2001, Minnesota Writers Respond." "Politic of the Word," short-short personal essay, A View from the Loft, August 2001. "Generation Gap," short-short memoir, Ruminator (Hungry Mind) Review. Spring 2000. "Brazen Improvisations," book review, Hungry Mind Review. Summer 1999. "What Kind of King," personal essay, The Gettysburg Review. Winter 1999. "S/he's a Rebel: The Pageantry of Gender," book review, Hungry Mind Review. Summer 1998. "When I Call Her My Husband" and "Muddy Bodies Longing," memoir/personal essay, Gravity?s Loophole , the 1997 Mcknight Award anthology published by The Loft. Minneapolis, Minnesota. September 1997. "Paulie's Engagement," The Evergreen Chronicles, Volume 10, No. 2. Summer 1995. "Miss South Side of Chicago," memoir, Things That Fall From the Sky, the 1994 McKnight Award anthology published by The Loft, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1994. "Burning Down the House," memoir, Hurricane Alice, Volume 9, # 1&2. Summer/Fall 1992. "Another Poet Gone to Prose: The Personal Essay as Quest," essay, A View From the Loft, Volume 14, #5. December 1991. Poetry "The Last Night That Stirred," 13th Moon, Volume XIV, #1&2 Retrospective Anthology. Fall 1996. "The Watchers," "Space," "The Last Night That Stirred," "Too Fast for the Eye to Hold," 13th Moon, Volume XI, Numbers 1& 2. Winter 1993. "The Disappeared," Sinister Wisdom #43/44, 15th Anniversary Retrospective. Summer 1991. "Lightning," Agassiz Review, Volume 1, #1. Winter 1991. "The Watchers," A View From the Loft. March 1988. "A Mother Pauses Before a Photograph," The Greenfield Review. Fall 1987. "Him, Her, the Other," The Evergreen Chronicles, Volume 2, #4. Summer 1987. "Under the Sand," Ripenings, a publication of Sing Heavenly Muse. Summer 1987. "The Disappeared," Sinister Wisdom #32. Spring 1987. "Him, Her, the Other," Minnesota Writes-Poetry, an anthology of Minnesota poets. Milkweed Editions/Nodin Press. April 1987. "Water Between Us," The Evergreen Chronicles, Volume 2, #1. Spring 1986. "He brings you part way," Sing Heavenly Muse!, #13. Spring 1986.

	College and Community Teaching Courses in creative writing and related subjects at the Hamline University M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program, St. Paul, Minnesota. 1996-present. Reading and Writing the City Creative Nonfiction Originals: Annie Dillard, John Edgar Wideman, Terry Tempest Williams (online) Creative Nonfiction Classics A Body's Documentary Creative Prose and Significant Form The Geography of Memory (online and face-to-face) Advanced Creative Nonfiction Groundings in the Craft-Elements of Creative Nonfiction Writers and Readers-Creators Both, MFA Core Seminar Creative Nonfiction Tutorial Creative Nonfiction-Blending Genres, Building Form Courses at St. Olaf College, Northfield Minnesota. 2004-2005. Race, Class and Sexuality in America Courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. 1996-2001. A Matter of Fact: Literary Documentary The Subject I: Autobiography and Self-Portrait A Life in Art-Virginia Woolf A Life in Art-Dorothea Lange Writing for the Arts Program in Creative Writing, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. 1996-2001. Advanced Literary Nonfiction Intermediate Literary Nonfiction Intermediate Literary Nonfiction: Reading and Writers, Autobiography & Memoir Courses at the Loft, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1991-1999. Loft Mentor Series, Minnesota Mentor. Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing Intermediate/Advanced Creative Nonfiction Intermediate Creative Nonfiction-People, Places, Perspectives Beginning Creative Nonfiction Elements and Varieties of Creative Nonfiction The Body as Narrator in Creative Nonfiction Re-visioning Memory: Revising the Truth in Creative Nonfiction Telling the Intuitive Story-Creative Form for Creative Nonfiction The Writer's Sketchbook: A Discipline Building Workshop Privately taught courses. 1994-present. Sonorous Summer Creative Nonfiction Workshop Deep Winter Creative Nonfiction Workshop One-day workshops in creative nonfiction. Various venues. 1995-present. Creative Nonfiction Master Class-Where To Go From Here Getting Launched-Creative Nonfiction in the Literary Marketplace The Body as Narrator in Creative Nonfiction

	Selected Readings, Performances, and Invited Lectures Reading, Waterfront Property, in There Goes the Neighborhood, Soapbox Gallery, July 7, 2006, Minneapolis. Reading, Navigating Jazz, SASE GLBT Reading, June 28, 2006, Minneapolis. Reading, When We Were In the Projects, SASE/Intermedia Arts merger launch reading, June, 8 2006, Minneapolis Lecture/Panel, Staying True to a Double Life: How to Write, Make a Living and Love Your Life All at the Same Time, as part of the Hamline University Graduate School of Liberal Studies Exploration and Vocation Project, September 29, 2005, St. Paul. Reading, Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam, SASE GLBT Reading, August 24, 2005 Reading, home city farewell reading from My Lesbian Husband, Wilde Roast Book Club, Minneapolis, May 12, 2005. Reading and Classroom Visits, University of Maine at Farmington, April 6, 2005. Panel Discussion, authors discuss their books on the topic of lesbian and gay marriage, Barnes & Noble, Union Square, New York City, May 12, 2004. Reading, From Head to Flit, in Taking Risks, Patrick's Cabaret, May 7, 2004. Classroom Visit, Anoka Ramsey Community College, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, April 14, 2004. Reading, from My Lesbian Husband, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, Minnesota, February 4, 2004. Reading, from My Lesbian Husband, Mankato Writers Festival, Minnesota State University Mankato, November 13, 2003. Reading, works-in-progress, Red Curtain Cabaret at the Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, November 6-13 2003. Reading, from My Lesbian Husband, Morningside College, Sioux City Iowa, September 15, 2003 Reading and Panel Discussion, Wild Blue Yonder, Tribute to Christopher Isherwood, Minneapolis Public Library, May 17, 2003. Lecture, Chasing The Creative Nonfiction Question or How To Live, Think, and Write at the Same Time, Creative Writing 1101, University of Minnesota, Program in Creative Writing. April 2003, April 2002 & November 2001. Reading and Classroom Visit, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2003. Reading, from My Lesbian Husband, Indiana University Writers' Conference, June 2001. Reading, from work-in-progress, The Loft, Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 2001. Public Dialogue with Scott Russell Sanders, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 2000. Reading, Fireside Readings, St. Paul Public Library, Hamline Branch Library, St. Paul, Minnesota. March 2000. Classroom visit and luncheon lecture, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. December 1999. Reading, from My Lesbian Husband, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. November 1999. Public Dialogue with Mark Doty, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 1999. Lecture, "Real as Steel: Melting Down and Re-Forming the Creative Nonfiction Moment," Creative Writing 1101, University of Minnesota, Program in Creative Writing. November 1999, March 2000, and March 2001.. Public Dialogue with Bernard Cooper, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. October 1998. Paper, "What Writers Need-Documenting and Imagining Real Life," presented on a panel at AWP, Portland, Oregon. March 1998. Public Forum, "Real as Steel: Melting Down and Re-Forming the Actual Moment," The Loft, Minneapolis, Minnesota. January 1998. Reading, excerpts from My Lesbian Husband, McKnight Award of Distinction Reading with Rosellen Brown, The Loft, Minneapolis, Minnesota. September 1997. Reading "Crazy Diamond" from My Lesbian Husband, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, with Scott Russell Sanders. May 1997. Reading, of excerpts from Restoring the Color of Roses, and from My Lesbian Husband, Purdue-Calumet University, Hammond, Indiana. March 1996. Reading of "When I Call Her My Husband," an excerpt from My Lesbian Husband, A Women's Coffeehouse 10 Year Reunion, Minneapolis, Minnesota. December 1995. Reading, "King of the Roses," a commissioned work in conjunction with the Sigmar Polke exhibition, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. June 1995. Reading, excerpts from Restoring the Color of Roses and from My Lesbian Husband, as a part of Women's Week at Beloit College, Beloit Wisconsin. March 1995. Reading, excerpts from My Lesbian Husband, OutWrite, the national gay and lesbian writer's conference, Boston, Massachusetts. March 1995. Paper, " Creative Nonfiction: A Queer Genre?" presented on a panel at OutWrite, Boston, Massachusetts. March 1995. Luncheon Lecture, "The Lesbian Edge: Writing a Life From the Margin," at Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota. January 1995. Reading, excerpts from Restoring the Color of Roses, as part of the Different Drummers Series, Bemidji State University, Bemidji Minnesota. January 1995. Reading from Restoring the Color of Roses, as a part of Women's Week at the University of Minnesota-Morris. February 1994. Performance, "Fire Ball from the End of the World," presented as a part of the Culture Calls series, produced by Intermedia Arts, performed at the Southern Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 1993. Performance, "Miss (White) South Side of Chicago," presented as a part of Dyke Nite II at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. June 1992. Performance, Excerpts from "Slouching Towards Chicago," part of the series Giving Voice at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. January 1992. Reading, "Him, Her, the Other," 1990 Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois. December 1990. Reading, "Him, Her, the Other," Wisconsin State Women's Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin-River Falls. October 1988. Reading, "Him, Her, the Other," National Women's Studies Association Conference, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. June 1988.