Patron Henekou is assistant professor at the University of Lomé, where he teaches literature and creative writing. He was a 2017-2018 Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing Pedagogy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a 2018 African-American Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival in Delray, Florida. Patron is a poet and co-founder of the Festival International des Lettres et des Arts.
His poems are published in anthologies such as Palmes pour le Togo, Arbolarium, Antologia Poetica de Los Cinco Continentes, and in poetry magazines such as Résonance, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Asymptote, and Zócalo. Patron’s publications include Dovlo (2015), Souffles d’outre-cœur (2017), Souffles & FacesI and II (2018, 2022), Des cheveux et des ongles (2021), and Vendredi soir sur la 13 (2021). In 2020, Patron won second prize in the International Poetry Prize Sur les Traces de Léopold Sédar Senghor in Milan, Italy.
