Gina Ochsner is the author of The Hidden Letters of Velta B., a poetic story about family relationships, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, a novel long-listed for the Orange Prize, and two story collections. Her awards include the Flannery O’Connor Award, the William Faulkner Prize, the Oregon Book Award, Guggenheim and NEA grants, and the Raymond Carver Prize.

She is teaching at Corban University where she also directs the Portals Writing Conference.

Ochsner also teaches with the Seattle Pacific Low-Residency MFA program.