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Gina Ochsner

 

Gina Ochsner lives in Keizer, Oregon and teaches writing and literature at Corban University and with Seattle Pacific’s Low Residency MFA program.  She is the author of the short story collection The Necessary Grace to Fall, People I Wanted to Be and the novel The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight.  A novel entitled The Hidden Letters of Velta B  is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in July 2016.

On your nightstand: 

Karl Knausgaard’s magical, ethereal, cathedral A Time for Everything; The Turnip Princess by X. von Schonwerth; and Bulgarian for Beginners.

Which author would you like to meet, what impressed you as a kid, and what’s your favorite reading format?

I would love to meet Flannery O’Connor, if only for one hour.  As a kid, Grimm’s Fairy Tales and the Book of Genesis made the biggest impression on me. I’m afraid I’m ridiculously old fashioned. I think I’ll always prefer the look, feel and smell of a printed book over any other form.