Barrie Jean Borich, author of "The Body Geographic"

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic, forthcoming in the American Lives Series of the University of Nebraska Press. Borich holds an MFA from the Rainier Writer's Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and 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.

Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection.