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 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. Among his short plays are Zambezi Blue, A Postcard from the Corn Palace, Killing Mother, and Your Call Is Very Important to Us. He has also written poetry (the sonnet and limerick are his favorite forms) and an assortment of freelance articles for publications ranging from Orchids magazine to the Washington Post. Discernment is his first novel.
