STAYTON, Ore. -- The Stayton Public Library is excited to announce a visit featuring author Gina Ochsner on Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 7:00 pm in the E. G. Siegmund Meeting Room. There will be a reception accompanying the event.

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, which was selected for the Flannery O’Connor Award and the collection People I Wanted to Be.  Both collections received the Oregon Book Award.   In 2010 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight.  Her latest novel entitled The Hidden Letters of Velta B was released in July 2016; the paperback edition will be released this summer.  To find out more about Gina, please visit www.ginaochsner.com.

The Stayton Public Library’s speaking events for 2018 are sponsored by the Stayton Friends of the Library.