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For Immediate Release
May 1, 2000

Lawrence University Hosts Author Barrie Jean Borich For Book Reading   


     APPLETON, WIS. -- Award-winning author Barrie Jean Borich will read
excerpts from her second book "My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a
Marriage," Monday, May 8 at Lawrence University's Wriston Art Center
Auditorium.  The reading, which begins at 7 p.m., is free and open to
the public.
     "My Lesbian Husband" is a nonfiction memoir of Borich's 14-year
relationship with her lesbian partner. She traces both the pleasures and
the difficulties of trying to construct a long-term union in the absence
of legal and social support.
     Borich's writing has been recognized with numerous literary prizes,
including  the 2000 American Library Association GLBT Nonfiction Book
Award, a Loft McKnight Award in Creative Prose and a 1997-98 Bush Artist
Fellowship. 
     Her first book, "Restoring the Color of Roses" was published in
1993. In addition to her writing, Borich teaches at Hamline University
and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.