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GINA OCHSNER is the author of two collections of short stories, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train, and others. She is a recipient of the Flannery OConnor Award, the Ruth Hindman Foundation Prize, Guggenheim and NEA Grants, and the Raymond Carver Prize. She lives in Oregon. " ...more

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	The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight 3.39 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hidden Letters of Velta B. 3.42 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People I Wanted to Be: Stories 3.70 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Necessary Grace to Fall 4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pleased to Be Otherwise 3.55 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oregon Reads Aloud by Curtis C. Chen (Goodreads Author), Addie Boswell, Cathy Camper (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glimmer Train Stories, #78 by Susan Burmeister-Brown (Editor), Linda B. Swanson-Davies (Editor), Stephanie Soileau (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Winter 2020-2021 by Ladette Randolph, Nick Arvin, Gina Ochsner (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I tell it to you now to remind you the reason for stories in the first place. It is a way to pluck the loose stitching of a garment so capacious one cannot tell where the top is, where the bottom is. In this way our words take full sail and lift us to another time and place.”
― Gina Ochsner, The Hidden Letters Of Velta B.: An Award-Winning Literary Novel of Family and History in Soviet Latvia

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message 2: by Gina

Feb 21, 2010 04:21PM

Thanks, Don! I'll check out your work tonight!
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message 1: by Donald

Feb 19, 2010 03:24PM

Hi Gina,
Thanks for the friend request. I'd be honored if you'd check out my work at My Website. You can download any or all of my ebooks for free.
God bless!
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