Ron Rozelle

Ronald Rozelle is an American author, newspaper columnist, and educator who won the 2022 Summerlee Book Prize for Creative writing.

Ronald Rozelle was raised in Oakwood, Texas, where his father Lester was an educator and school superintendent.

He graduated from Oakwood High School in 1970 and earned a Bachelor's of Arts from Sam Houston State University.

Publishers Weekly noted the book's "potentially tricky structure that ultimately yields a spare, beautifully written" tribute to his father.

[1] His novel, Leaving the Country of Sin: A Novel, was awarded the 2022 Sumerlee Book Prize for Creative writing from the Lamar University Center for History and Culture.