Dan Close joined Kansas Authors Club in 2009. He was a member of District 5 and served as D5 Vice President in 2020, and on the state convention committee in 2019. He served as State Prose Contest Manager in 2017-18, and was the State Vice President in 2018. He served as presenter and panel member at several KAC state conventions and was a frequent contest member.
Dan received his B.A. in Journalism from Wichita State University in 1981. He worked as a reporter and journalist for fourteen different newspapers, and gained his M.A. in Communication from WSU in 1993. He had been an editor at The Wichita Eagle prior to taking a position as Associate Professor in the Elliot School of Communication at WSU. Dan's career included radio broadcasting, public relations, advertising, photography and design. He has written award-winning fiction and poetry, and was adviser of the WSU student paper, THE SUNFLOWER for sixteen years. He was a DART Fellow at Columbia University in New York in 2011.
Dan received his B.A. in Journalism from Wichita State University in 1981. He worked as a reporter and journalist for fourteen different newspapers, and gained his M.A. in Communication from WSU in 1993. He had been an editor at The Wichita Eagle prior to taking a position as Associate Professor in the Elliot School of Communication at WSU. Dan's career included radio broadcasting, public relations, advertising, photography and design. He has written award-winning fiction and poetry, and was adviser of the WSU student paper, THE SUNFLOWER for sixteen years. He was a DART Fellow at Columbia University in New York in 2011.
Dan Close
August 29, 1958 - May 28, 2022
August 29, 1958 - May 28, 2022
Dan Close (D5) and Jolene Haas (D3) are recognized for 10 years of membership at the 2019 Convention in Wichita.
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