Henk Rossouw’s debut Xamissa (Fordham University Press, 2018) won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize. His chapbook The Water Archives was included in the 2018 box set New-Generation African Poets. Poems have been featured in POETRY, The Paris Review, and World Literature Today, among other places. Henk teaches at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He’s a consulting editor for the African Poetry Book Series at the University of Nebraska Press.