Name Gina Ochsner | Role Author | |
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Awards Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The Necessary Grace to, The Russian Dreambo, People I Wanted to be, The Russian Dreambo |
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Gina Ochsner (born 1970) is an American author best known for her story collection, The Necessary Grace to Fall, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award in 2001, and her novel, The Russian Dream Book of Colour and Flight (2009).

She is a graduate of George Fox University, in Newberg, Oregon, and holds a master's degree from Iowa State University.
Her first published story was "Feldspar's Rock Shop" in the Dog River Review, Volume 13, No. 1 (1994), under the pseudonym (maiden name) G. Withnell.
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