Henk Rossouw
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Director of Creative Writing
MFA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011
PhD, University of Houston, 2017
Office: Griffin 333
Phone: 337-482-6913
E-mail: henk.rossouw@louisiana.edu
Pronouns: he/him
Teaching and Research Areas
Creative writing, modern and contemporary poetry, postcolonial studies, archives
Recent Courses Taught
Noteworthy
Henk Rossouw's book-length poem Xamissa, published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize. Best American Experimental Writing 2018, out from Wesleyan University Press, featured an excerpt. The African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books included his chapbook The Water Archives in the 2018 boxed set New-Generation African Poets. Poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Boston Review, among other publications. Originally from Cape Town, Henk earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a PhD from the University of Houston, where he served as a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. Currently, he is an associate editor for Tupelo Quarterly.
Selected Publications
Books:
Articles and Book Chapters:
bostonreview.net/poetry/henk-rossouw-sonnet-my-son
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6245/the-dream-of-the-road-henk-rossouw
Reviews of his work
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/
For more on his work, visit henkrossouw.com