Lucy Rose Fischer is an award-winning Minnesota author, artist and social scientist. Her most recent books are: The Journalist: Life and Loss in America’s Secret War (2020), Grow Old With Me (2019), and I’m New at Being Old (2010). She specializes in painting upside-down, inside-out and backwards on hand blown glass with whimsical and vibrantly colored designs. Before launching her art career, she had a distinguished career as a researcher, specializing in the study of aging. She is featured on the Twin Cities Public Television program “Life Changing Art.”
Excerpt from “Life Changing Art,” produced by Twin Cities Public Television
THE GHOST WRITER
“The Ghost Writer” is a short play by Lucy Rose Fischer. The play tells the story of ghost-writing, THE JOURNALIST–a memoir of her late brother, Jerry Rose, who was a journalist in Vietnam in the early 1960s. The play is read by Barbara Reid, as Lucy Rose, and Ryan London Levin, as Jerry Rose. Savannah Reich reads the stage directions.
