Daniel Vollaro

Daniel Vollaro writes about pop culture and politics. His essay “It’s a M*A*S*H World Now: Remembering the Great Antiwar TV Series 50 Years Later” was recently published in The Smart Set. His essay “Breaking the Wheel: Game of Thrones and the American Zeitgeist” is the lead essay in the recently published book Power and Subversion in Game of Thrones. He was listed as a "notable" writer in Best American Essays 2020 for "The Lookout Tree", which was published a year earlier in Michigan Quarterly Review and again last year in his collection Reservoir: Tales from the Other Jersey, by Gypsy Daughter Press. His essays have been recently published in Adbusters, As it Ought to Be Magazine, Boomer Café, Litro, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Rise Up Review, and The Smart Set. His fiction has been published in Blue Moon Review, Crania, Creo, Fairfield Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Thrice Fiction, and Timber.