Poet. Professor. Editor.

Henk Rossouw is from Cape Town, South Africa. His 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.

An Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Henk received early tenure in 2023 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he serves as the Co-Director of the UL Lafayette Creative Writing Program. 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.

Contact: 
Email Henk: hrossouw at gmail dot com