Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng

Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng is a writer and doctoral student in English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Before graduating with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the Helen Zell Writers' Program, Motsoeneng obtained a B.A. in English and Human Rights Studies from Trinity College, Connecticut, where he was a President's Fellow.

He's been awarded the Avery Hopwood Novel Prize and Fredrick Busch Award, and his fiction and literary journalism appears in such publications as Joyland Magazine, Lolwe, Michigan Quarterly Review online, and Kinfolk.

Motsoeneng is currently at work on a novel set in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was born and raised.