Who he?

Minneapolis native Roy M. Close served twenty-four years as a journalist, most of them as a theater, classical music, and dance critic for Twin Cities dailies. He has also worked as a city hall reporter, arts editor, grantwriter, English teacher, copywriter, editor of a landscape architecture quarterly, and staff writer for a national nonprofit developer for the arts. He is the author of more than a dozen plays, including A Brief Crack of Light, written with Bill Semans and now in the running for a London production, and Lies, Lies, Lies: The Truth About Newspapers, a musical staged at the Brave New Workshop in a different century. Among his short plays are Zambezi Blue, A Postcard from the Corn Palace, Killing Mother, and Your Call Is Very Important to Us, all staged at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. He has also written poetry (the sonnet and limerick are his favorite forms) and an assortment of freelance articles for publications ranging from airline magazines to The Washington Post. Discernment is his first novel.

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