Henk Rossouw

Henk Rossouw
  • Faculty
  • Jean Jacques-Aurore Labb茅 Fournet Associate Professor
  • Co-director of Creative Writing

Biography

Henk Rossouw's debut Xamissa (Fordham University Press, 2018) won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor's Prize. The African Poetry Book Fund included his chapbook The Water Archives in the 2018 box set New-Generation African Poets. Best American Experimental Writing 2018 (Wesleyan University Press) featured his work. His poems have been in POETRY, Lana Turner Journal, Poetry Northwest, World Literature Today, Boston Review, and The Paris Review. In 2024, he was a Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence. He's an editor for Tupelo Quarterly and a consulting editor for the African Poetry Book Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Henk is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the 天美传媒安卓破解版, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program.

Education

MFA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011
PhD, University of Houston, 2017

Student Research/Collaboration

  • Creative writing
  • Modern and contemporary poetry
  • Documentary poetics
  • Ecopoetics

Publications

Books:

  • Xamissa. Poets Out Loud Editor鈥檚 Prize, Fordham University Press, 2018.
    www.fordhampress.com/9780823281107/xamissa

Poems:

  • 鈥淓levated Flare.鈥 Gulf Coast, vol. 36, no. 1., 2023,
    gulfcoastmag.org/online/36.1-summer/fall-2023/elevated-flare/
  • 鈥淧asserine.鈥 POETRY, Sep. 2022, pp. 428-429,
    www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158384/passerine
  • 鈥淪onnet for My Son.鈥 Boston Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, p. 74,
    bostonreview.net/poetry/henk-rossouw-sonnet-my-son
  • 鈥淭he Dream of The Road.鈥 Paris Review, no. 205, 2013, pp. 237-238,
    www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6245/the-dream-of-the-road-henk-rossouw

Reviews of his work:

  • Kempf, Christopher. 鈥淩eview of Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.鈥 Colorado Review, 30 Apr. 2019, coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/xamissa/
  • Darling, Kristina Marie. 鈥溾楽pare This Body, Set Fire to Another鈥: Speech and Silence in Work by Kaveh Akbar, Brenna Womer, and Henk Rossouw.鈥 Kenyon Review, 7 Nov. 2018 kenyonreview.org/2018/11/spare-this-body-set-fire-to-another-speech-silence-in-work-by-kaveh-akbar-brenna-womer-henk-rossouw/

Awards & Recognition

Outstanding Doctoral Student Mentor Award, College of Liberal Arts, 2022-2023