Gina Ochsner je autorkou, ktorej poviedky sa vyznačujú hlbokým vhľadom do ľudskej psychiky a zložitosti vzťahov. Jej štýl je popisovaný ako poetický a zároveň surovo realistický, ktorý čitateľa vťahuje do víru emócií a životných zvratov. Prostredníctvom svojej tvorby skúma témy straty, vykúpenia a hľadania zmyslu v každodennom živote. Ochsnerová majstrovsky pracuje s jazykom, aby odhalila skryté motivácie postáv a ich tiché vnútorné boje.
From the Russian couple haunted by the ghosts of children they never had, to the man who buys a mynah bird in the hope of saving his marriage, People I Wanted To Be is concerned with people who feel that their lives are loose skins they've not quite grown into and perhaps won't ever fit.
A fable-like, magical debut in which the author takes readers into her characters' dreams, and memories, and hearts, and shows the resilience of human hope and imagination in even the most unlikely, post-Soviet surroundings.