Barrie Jean Borich is an American writer. She is best known for her memoirs My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage,"Barrie Jean Borich writes a tale of two cities". Minneapolis Post, March 14, 2013. which won a Stonewall Book Award in 2000 and was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for Lesbian Biography at the 12th Lambda Literary Awards, and Body Geographic, which won the Lambda for Lesbian Biography/Memoir at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards."Lambda Awards honor best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books". The Washington Post, June 2, 2014.
Originally from Chicago, Illinois,"Following her inner compass". Chicago Tribune, January 31, 2014. she spent much of her adult life living in Minneapolis, Minnesota until returning to Chicago in 2012 to teach creative writing at DePaul University.
Works Restoring the Color of Roses (1993, ) My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage (1999, ) Body Geographic (2013, )
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