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Instructor
Mr. Ron Rozelle teaches Creative
Writing 1,2 and 3, at Brazoswood High School in Clute, TX. He coached the
varsity tennis team for ten years, and was the director of the Creative Writing
Program at Basilian Fathers/St. Thomas High School in Houston, TX during the
1999-00 school year.
In 1998 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, a
prestigious New York publishing company, published his book Into That Good
Night, a memoir based on the relationship between Rozelle and his father as
they dealt with the latter's bout with Alzheimer's disease. That same year his
book was a finalist for the PEN American West Nonfiction Prize and the Texas
Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Nonfiction Award. It was also selected as
the best nonfiction composition in the United States by the San Antonio
Express-News. His historical novel The Windows of Heaven, based on the
Galveston hurricane of 1900, was published around the same time that he returned
to BISD from teaching in Houston. He has been a speaker at numerous
writers' conferences and taught the memoirs workshop at the 1999 Newman
University Milton Center National Conference in Mississippi, and his chapter on
teaching Creative Writing courses will be included in a textbook published by
the National Council of Teachers of English. He is the author of the Setting a Description volume of
the Write Great Fiction series published by Writer's Digest Books.
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