Dan Zak

Dan Zak is a feature writer and general assignment reporter based in the Style section of the Washington Post. He has reported from a bathroom at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, a Hurricane Hunter over the Gulf of Mexico, an MRAPin Iraq's Anbar province, the East Room of the White House, and the gymnasium of the Alexandria jail. He joined the Post in 2005, after stints as an editorial assistant at Entertainment Weekly and as a city-desk reporter and obituary writer at the Buffalo News. He was born and raised in Buffalo, New York.