About Ilan

Ilan Mochari is the author of the poetry collection Playthings and the novel Zinsky the Obscure. Ilan’s short stories, poems, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Salamander, Hobart, The Louisville Review, Solstice, J Journal, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes as well as the Derringer Award for crime fiction, and he has been the recipient of a Literature Artist Fellowship grant from the Somerville Arts Council.