Poet. Editor. Assistant Professor.
Henk Rossouw is from Cape Town, South Africa. His book-length poem Xamissa , published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize . An Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Henk achieved tenure at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette , where he is also the Co-Director of the UL Lafayette Creative Writing Program .
New eco-poems from his manuscript-in-progress on animals and language have found homes in POETRY magazine, Gulf Coast online, and Poetry Northwest .