I’m thrilled to be reading with Barrie on May 9 at The Book Cellar in Chicago. Barrie was a valuable mentor to me in the 2007-08 Loft Mentorship Series. A copy of her book sits on my table! I cannot wait to start reading it.
In today’s Faculty News, we extend our congratulations to Prof. Barrie Jean Borich. Borich joined DePaul’s creative writing faculty last fall, and this spring she is celebrating the release of her third creative nonfiction book,Body Geographic. Body Geographic is published by the University of Nebraska Press and was selected for inclusion in the American Lives Series, edited by Tobias Wolff.
From the official press release:
A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich’s Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself.
One coordinate of Borich’s story is Chicago, the prototypical Great Lakes port city built by immigrants like her great-grandfather Big Petar, and
the other is her own port of immigration, Minneapolis, the combined skylines of these two cities…
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