Daniel Kugler is a freelance writer at Encylopaedia Britannica, specializing in music and culture. His work has been published in The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History and in numerous other publications. He hosted the folk music podcast Live at the Grafton and has taught classes at Middlebury College and American English Center in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is also a practicing attorney.