Cartography of high literary order, plotting routes, real and imagined, and putting an alternate landscape on the map

Winner of 2014 Lambda Literary Awards - Biography

"Body Geographic is as astonishingly original as it is profoundly humane. Barrie Jean Borich writes of the body, the psyche, the land, and real life with a reach so grand and a mastery so definitive it clutches the heart. This is a beautiful, bold, blow-your-mind book." - Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild "Body Geographic is dizzying in its inward sweep, daring in its outflung absorption. Barrie Jean Borich tunnels through time, space, sex, and language to give us a new map projection of the North American continent, a distortion that not only clarifies and illuminates but dissolves for good the boundary between personal and public history." - Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Are You My Mother? "Borich maps place and body, time and space, personal history and the history of the American Midwest, in prose that makes me want to follow her daring journey wherever it leads. A glorious new take on the memoir form." - Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire "Borich (Creative Writing/DePaul Univ.; My Lesbian Body, 1999) takes on the formidable challenge of "countermapping [her] American body against 'the true and accurate atlas' any woman of [her] place and generation was supposed to follow...Poetic, complex and innovative." Kirkus Reviews, January 2013 "Borich's memoir creates a Midwest where her body and the landscape intersect - a unique literary cartography that traces the lives of her immigrant great-grandparents and more recent relatives while exploring her own personal journey." Whitney Scott, Booklist Online

Barrie Jean Borich teaches creative writing in the English Department and the MA in Writing and Publishing program at Chicagoa's DePaul University and splits her time between Minneapolis and Chicago.