Marc Fisher, whose column appears in The Washington Post three times each week, reports and writes about local, national and personal issues. He also writes "The Listener," a column about radio, music and culture that appears in the Post's Sunday Arts section. His blog, "Raw Fisher," and his online chat program, "Potomac Confidential," appear on washingtonpost.com. He also appears daily on Washington Post Radio. Prior to launching the column, Fisher was the paper's Special Reports Editor, responsible for generating and editing features, breaking news and other long-form stories from all staffs for Page One. He also wrote a column in the Post's Sunday Magazine.

In addition to "Something in the Air," Fisher is author of "After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History," published by Simon and Schuster in 1995. The book grew out of Fisher's four years as Bonn and Berlin bureau chief of The Post, beginning with the dramatic events of autumn 1989. He has taught journalism at Princeton University, served as journalist-in-residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and been a visiting scholar at the George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs.

Winner of numerous journalism awards, Fisher worked at the Miami Herald from 1981 to 1986, when he moved to The Post. He covered the D.C. school system, was on the staff of the Sunday magazine, and served as Assistant City Editor before joining the Foreign Desk in early 1989. After returning from Germany in 1994, Fisher was a writer in the Style section, covering politics, culture and beliefs. A graduate of Princeton University, Fisher lives in Washington with his wife, 15-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son.