Ilan Mochar­i’s debut nov­el, Zin­sky the Obscure (Fomite), is avail­able on Ama­zon, which earned rave reviews from Pub­lish­ers Week­ly, Kirkus Reviews, and Book­list. Boston’s NPR sta­tion has named it one of its ​“Good Reads For The Sum­mer.” His short sto­ries have appeared in Key­hole, Stymie, and Ruthie’s Club. He is a con­trib­u­tor to Cognoscen­ti, the online mag­a­zine for Boston’s NPR Sta­tion. He has a B.A. in Eng­lish from Yale. He used it to wait tables for nine years in the Boston area.