Daniel Voll’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Esquire. A National Magazine Award Finalist, his work was selected for Esquire’s Big Book of Great Writing and Best American Non-Required Reading, edited by David Eggers. His fiction has also appeared in Redbook, The Archive, and other literary journals. A Duke University graduate, Voll earned his MFA from UC-Irvine and has taught writing and storytelling in places as varied as Belize and on a locked psychiatric unit in Rockford, Illinois. Also a playwright and screenwriter, he has written and produced for television, film, and documentary.
The Stacks Reader Series highlights classic literary nonfiction and short fiction by great journalists that would otherwise be lost to history—a living archive of memorable storytelling by notable authors. Sponsored by NeoText, it is curated by Alex Belth and published by The Sager Group.net.
The Army of God is a radical anti-abortion group that believes stalking and killing abortion providers is justifiable homicide and that violence is the best and only means to end legal abortions, a stance abhorred by more moderate citizens on both ends of the political spectrum.
Patty and Allen are in love. Patty and Allen have four beautiful children. But their relationship is illegal. So Patty and Allen are in prison. A true story.
As a young lifeguard, Ronald Reagan saved 77 people from drowning in the Rock River in Dixon, Illinois. And, during the late 1980’s, an FBI agent did visit a neighbor of the author’s who had been sending (by then) President Reagan cryptic collages, to see if he intended to harm the leader of the free world. What happened during that interrogation, nobody knows for sure. A fictional short story.