Poet and Editor.

Henk Rossouw’s book-length poem Xamissa, published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor's Prize. His poems have been featured in literary journals such as POETRY and The Paris Review. Residencies include Willapa Bay AiR.

From 2018 to 2025, Henk taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he served as the Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program and received early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of English. His PhD is from the University of Houston and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He’s been an editor for Tupelo Quarterly and Gulf Coast. Currently, he’s a consulting editor for the African Poetry Book Series at Brown University. Originally from South Africa, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Contact: 
Email Henk: hrossouw at gmail dot com