Patrick Rosal

Patrick Rosal is a Filipino American poet and essayist.

Writing Rosal is the author of four books of poetry: Brooklyn Antediluvian, Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, all from Persea Books. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including The New York Times, Tin House, Drunken Boat, Poetry, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Grantland, Brevity, Breakbeat Poets, and The Best American Poetry. He is co-founding editor of Some Call It Ballin’, a literary sports magazine.

Career Rosal received his MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas, Austin, Bloomfield College, and is Distinguished Professor of English and Communication at Rutgers University-Camden.

Awards 2007 - Global Filipino Literary Award for My American Kundiman 2008 - Association for Asian American Studies Poetry/Prose Award for My American Kundiman 2011 - National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlight for Boneshepherds 2017 - Guggenheim Fellowship 2017 - Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Brooklyn Antediluvian 2017 - Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Brooklyn Antediluvian 2018 - National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 2022 - William Carlos Williams Award