Set in far-flung locations, Gina Ochsner's stories make distant things present and real, never exotic or gimmicky; this is the real stuff, real stories about likeable, wounded, resilient people who feel as if they could live next door to you, though in fact they live in the Czech Republic, or Siberia, or Texas, or Alaska. Her fiction has an aura of timelessness, placing mythology and burdened history alongside modern, urban angst, sharply written dialogue, and urgent character conflict.
Gina Ochsner lives and works in Keizer, Oregon, with her husband and three small children, and teaches part time at George Fox University. Her collection, The Necessary Grace to Fall, was selected as the Flannery O'Connor Short Award for Fiction and was published by University of Georgia Press in March 2002.
Bibliography:
- The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (Portobello Books, 2009) fiction
- People I Wanted To Be (Mariner Books, 2005) fiction
- The Necessary Grace To Fall (University of Georgia Press, 2002) fiction
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