Author Barrie Jean Borich will be reading April 3, 2007 at 7 p.m. in the North Lounge of Lourdes Hall.

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of the American Library Association GLBT book award winner My Lesbian Husband. Best American Essays listed her Gettysburg Review piece, "What Kind of King," as a Notable essay of 1999, and Minneapolis/St.Paul Magazine included her among "Top 10 Local Authors."

Her essays appear frequently in "Speakeasy" Magazine and her awards include a Bush Artist Fellowship and a Loft McKnight Award of Distinction. Her first book, Restoring the Color of Roses (Firebrand) is a memoir set in the Calumet region of Chicago. She teaches privately and in the MFA program at Hamline University's Graduate school of Liberal Studies, and lives in Minneapolis with her beloved, Linnea Stenson, and their dogs, Dusty Springfield and Rosemary Clooney.

These events are free and open to the public and are sponsored by the Department of English and the WILL program.