Gina Ochsner teaches at Corban University where she also directs the Portals Writing Conference. Ochsner also teaches with the Seattle Pacific Low-Residency MFA program.

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.

Books by Gina Ochsner

The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

by Gina Ochsner - Fiction, Literary, Literature

Young Maris was born with very large, very special ears that enable him to hear the secrets of the dead, as well as memories that haunt his Latvian home. When Maris is summoned to his mother’s bedside table as she nears the end of her life, she reveals her version of their family history, the story of his early life and the ways in which he changed the lives of others.