Gina Ochsner is the Oregon...

Gina Ochsner is the Oregon Book Awards winner: "'I was gonna be a high school teacher,' she said. 'I got the certificate in English. Then I went to a high school and discovered how much time and work was involved. So I thought I'd go and live a little life first.' That's what appears to be typical Ochsner - a wry sense of humor tempered with rare insight. Her humor, in fact, is spontaneous, infectious, often disarming. Sometimes, you wonder if she's serious. Ochsner has heroes among writers, especially the practitioners of magical realism. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco and Ursula K. Le Guin. "