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Henk Rossouw's debut Xamissa, published by Fordham ŷ������Ƭ Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize. The African Poetry Book Fund included his chapbook The Water Archives in the 2018 box set New-Generation African Poets. Poems have appeared in POETRY, The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Northwest, World Literature Today, Boston Review, among other places. He teaches at the ŷ������Ƭ, where he co-directs the UL Creative Writing Program. He's an associate editor for Tupelo Quarterly.

PhD, 2017
ŷ������Ƭ of Houston

MFA, 2011
ŷ������Ƭ of Massachusetts Amherst

BA, 2005
ŷ������Ƭ of the Witwatersrand

Dr. Rossouw's research interests are in poetry and ecopoetics.

Opportunities for Student Research:

• Writing Poetry Manuscripts
• Critical Essays on Poetry

Opportunities for Student Collaboration:

• UL Lafayette Creative Writing Program
• The Southwestern Review

Book:

Xamissa. Fordham ŷ������Ƭ Press, 2018, www.fordhampress.com/9780823281107/xamissa

Chapbook:

Xamissa: The Water Archives. In New-Generation African Poets: Tano, A Chapbook Box Set, edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books, 2018, https://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/books/new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-tano/xamissa-the-water-archives/

Selected Journals:

• “Passerine.” POETRY, Sep. 2022., https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158384/passerine
• “Little Perpetrator (3).” World Literature Today, Mar. 2022, https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/march/little-perpetrator-3-henk-rossouw
• “Cape Panopticon.” Quarterly West, no. 99, 2020, https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-99/rossouw
• “Elegy for the Gesture.” Poetry Daily, 23 Jun. 2019, https://poems.com/poem/elegy-for-the-gesture/
• “From Xamissa: Roggebaai.jpeg.” Blackbird, Virginia Commonwealth ŷ������Ƭ, vol. 17, no. 1.,
• blackbird.vcu.edu/v17n1/poetry/rossouw-h/roggebaai-page.shtml
• “From Xamissa: Rearrival, Parts 1-3.” The Common, Amherst College, 11 Jul. 2016,
• www.thecommononline.org/july-2016-poetry-feature/
• “Sonnet for My Son.” Boston Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, p. 74,
• bostonreview.net/poetry/henk-rossouw-sonnet-my-son
• “The Dream of The Road.” Paris Review, no. 205, 2013, pp. 237-238,
• www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6245/the-dream-of-the-road-henk-rossouw

Reviews of Xamissa:

• Kempf, Christopher. “Review of Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.” Colorado Review, 30 Apr. 2019, coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/xamissa/
• Colditz, Keenan. “Book Review: Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.” Poetry International, 8 Dec. 2018, poetryinternationalonline.com/book-review-xamissa-by-henk-rossouw/
• Darling, Kristina Marie. “‘Spare This Body, Set Fire to Another’: Speech and Silence in Work by Kaveh Akbar, Brenna Womer, and Henk Rossouw.” 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/

• 2017 Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize, Poetic Justice Institute, Fordham ŷ������Ƭ Press 
• 2009 Poetry Society of America, Bright Lights Big Verse Contest
• 2006 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars First Prize, Fiction