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Henk Rossouw's debut Xamissa, published by Fordham ���APP 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 ���APP, where he co-directs the UL Creative Writing Program. He's an associate editor for Tupelo Quarterly.

PhD, 2017
���APP of Houston

MFA, 2011
���APP of Massachusetts Amherst

BA, 2005
���APP 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 ���APP 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:

• С���APP�Passerine.С���APP� POETRY, Sep. 2022., https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158384/passerine
• С���APP�Little Perpetrator (3).С���APP� World Literature Today, Mar. 2022, https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/march/little-perpetrator-3-henk-rossouw
• С���APP�Cape Panopticon.С���APP� Quarterly West, no. 99, 2020, https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-99/rossouw
• С���APP�Elegy for the Gesture.С���APP� Poetry Daily, 23 Jun. 2019, https://poems.com/poem/elegy-for-the-gesture/
• С���APP�From Xamissa: Roggebaai.jpeg.С���APP� Blackbird, Virginia Commonwealth С���APP, vol. 17, no. 1.,
• blackbird.vcu.edu/v17n1/poetry/rossouw-h/roggebaai-page.shtml
• С���APP�From Xamissa: Rearrival, Parts 1-3.С���APP� The Common, Amherst College, 11 Jul. 2016,
• www.thecommononline.org/july-2016-poetry-feature/
• С���APP�Sonnet for My Son.С���APP� Boston Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, p. 74,
• bostonreview.net/poetry/henk-rossouw-sonnet-my-son
• С���APP�The Dream of The Road.С���APP� 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. С���APP�Review of Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.С���APP� Colorado Review, 30 Apr. 2019, coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/xamissa/
• Colditz, Keenan. С���APP�Book Review: Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.С���APP� Poetry International, 8 Dec. 2018, poetryinternationalonline.com/book-review-xamissa-by-henk-rossouw/
• Darling, Kristina Marie. С���APP�С���APP�Spare This Body, Set Fire to AnotherС���APP�: Speech and Silence in Work by Kaveh Akbar, Brenna Womer, and Henk Rossouw.С���APP� 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 EditorС���APP�s Prize, Poetic Justice Institute, Fordham С���APP Press 
• 2009 Poetry Society of America, Bright Lights Big Verse Contest
• 2006 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars First Prize, Fiction