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Barrie Jean Borich is author of Apocalypse, Darling which PopMatters said “… soars and seems to live as a new form altogether. It’s poetry, a meditation on life as ‘the other,’ creative non-fiction, and abstract art.” Her memoir Body Geographic won a Lambda Literary Award and her book-length essay, My Lesbian Husband won the Stonewall Book Award. Borich’s Her most recent work appears in the journals Ploughshares and Conjunctions and her essays have been anthologized in: Bending Genre, Isherwood in Transit; Critical Creative Writing; Waveform: Twenty-First Century Essays by Women; After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays, and The Next Draft and have been cited in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading. She is a professor in the Department of English-MFA/MA in Creative Writing and Publishing Program at DePaul University in Chicago, where she edits Slag Glass City, a journal of the urban essay arts.