About: Barrie Jean Borich

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic, forthcoming in the American Lives Series of the University of Nebraska Press. Her previous book, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage (Graywolf) won the ALA Stonewall Book Awards. She's the recipient of the 2010 Florida Review Editor's Prize in the Essay and the 2010 Crab Orchard Review John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, and her essays appear in recent issues of Ecotone, Seneca Review, Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, South Loop Review, and Seattle Review. Her work has been named Notable in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading and she teaches in the MFA/BFA creative writing programs at Hamline University, where she's the nonfiction editor of Water~Stone Review. (www.barriejeanborich.net).

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Where We Bump and Grind It: On Resisting Redemption in Women’s Memoir

“The self-defining ways we discuss female sexuality in the lesbian-queer world might help transform how female sexuality is explored in all women’s creative nonfiction, and might be of use to any woman in search of a smart, witty rethinking of erotic expression. I say this as a challenge to myself, as well as to all CNF writers and their publishers.”