Hi, I’m Zak Zyz, a writer in Brooklyn, NY.

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Zak Zyz has worked as a welder, electrician, systems administrator, and cryptologic linguist. He hosts Strategically Correct, a Brooklyn board gaming society. Zak has been published on Tor.com and appeared on Hour of the Wolf.

INTERVIEW POINTS:

1: Zak has hitchhiked cross-country and visited all 48 contiguous states. He has many stories about weird, dangerous and wonderful encounters he had while thumbing across America. He has also backpacked extensively in Europe and Central America.

2: Zak is an abstract expressionist painter and produces a lot of weird-looking art.

3: Zak has been involved in numerous pirate radio stations and has been broadcasting for 20 years in a number of formats.

4. Zak worked as a hotel manager in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina and defied the mandatory evacuation order to help defend his hotel against looters.. He survived during the state of anarchy that followed and has many anecdotes about canoeing down Esplanade Avenue, fighting off looters, delivering food to refugees and ultimately escaping New Orleans.

5. Zak is an avid board gamer with an enormous collection of modern board games. Strategically Correct, his board game society is an invite-only gladiatorial rendezvous for some of the most combative minds in New York.

6. Zak has edited four! novels live on Twitch.tv with hundreds of contributions from viewers.

7. The presence of sevens is an affront to heaven