Biography
Gina Ochsner teaches at Corban University where she also directs the Between 2 Worlds High School Writing Conference. Ochsner has recently been awarded with the following:
“Soon the Light” first published in Ploughshares was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories (2022)
2020 Kurt Vonnegut prize for my story “Snow Queen”
2020 Grand Writers Flash Fiction, Second Place
2020 Kurt Vonnegut Prize in Short Fiction, First Place
2019 Shirly Jackson Fiction Award
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 received the Grub Street Book Prize in 2011 and was long listed for the Orange Prize in 2010.
Her latest novel THE HIDDEN LETTERS OF VELTA B. was released in 2016.
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