Patrick Rosal is an award-winning poet, essayist, and interdisciplinary artist. His honors include the Lenore Marshall Prize and William Carlos Williams Award, with fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Fulbright scholars program. In 2026, he was appointed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Poet-in-Residence. A Distinguished Professor at Rutgers-Camden, he served as inaugural Campus Director for the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. His mother was a dietician, his father a Thomist theologian and laicized catholic priest, both from the philippines. Rosal lives in Rahway, New Jersey.