Oregon author Gina Ochsner will be the second speaker in the 2010 Oregon
Legacy Series. She will speak at 3pm, Sunday, February 28, 2010 in the
Distad Reading Room at Driftwood Public Library.
Gina Ochsner lives in Keizer, Oregon and divides her time between writing and teaching with the
Seattle Pacific Low-Residency MFA program. Ochsner has been awarded a
John L. Simon Guggenheim grant and a grant from the National Endowment
of Arts. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House,
Glimmertrain and the Kenyon Review.
She is the author of the short story collection The Necessary Grace to Fall, which received the Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the story collection People I
Wanted to Be. Both books received the Oregon Book Award.
A novel entitled The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
is forthcoming from Portobello Press and from Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt in 2009.
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