Patrick Rosal is the author of five books and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award and Lenore Marshall Prize. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Fulbright Research Scholar program. He is inaugural Campus Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Camden, where he has also served as Interim Director of the MFA Program and is a Distinguished Professor of English.