PhotobucketYuvi Zalkow writes and worries in Portland, Oregon. His stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Narrative Magazine, Carve Magazine, and others. He recently sold his first neurotic novel, which is about a failed writer married to a woman who wants things he can’t give her, an agent who wants a book he can’t deliver, and dead parents who haunt him as he fails his wife and his book. The book will be published by MP Publishing in Fall of 2012. He is working on a second novel, which takes place in rural Georgia in 1938 and somehow involves one Jew obsessed with napkins and another Jew in the Klan. He recently received an MFA from Antioch University, which makes him feel official. Yuvi lives with his fabulous wife, his sushi-loving stepson, a chocolate-sprinkle-obsessed toddler, and his new MacBook Air laptop. You can find him giving unhelpful writing tips on Twitter (@yuvizalkow). Check out his presentations on writing and other stats at his website.