John J. Ruszkiewicz

JOHN J. RUSZKIEWICZ (aka J J Rusz) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended Benedictine High School. He received his BA from St. Vincent College (1972) and his PhD in English from The Ohio State University (1977). The author of a wide range of college textbooks including "Everything's an Argument" and "How to Write Anything," he is recently retired from the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught literature, rhetoric, and composition for 40 years.

Now under the name J J Rusz, he has published a first novel—"The Window Trail: A Big Bend Country Mystery" (2018). He spends much of his time in Alpine, Texas, enjoying its proximity to Big Bend National Park.