People I Wanted to Be: A Fiction Reading
Gina Ochsner
Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 at 3:30 pm – 212 Ross Hall
Gina Ochsner is the author of People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, and her short stories have been featured in The New Yorker magazine and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Ochsner graduated with a master's degree in English from Iowa State University and a master in fine arts from the University of Oregon. She has won more than twenty awards for her writing, including the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Oregon Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award. Her latest book, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2010. Part of the Eco-Voices Series.Cosponsored By:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- English
- Humanities Iowa
- MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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