Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng

Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng studies intersections of literature, politics, and history in the 20th century. He’s a doctoral student in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where also graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing (Prose). 

A fiction writer, Motsoeneng has received the Geoffrey Gosling Prize, the Avery Hopwood Prize, and the Frederick Busch Award, all for the novel. Motsoeneng's stories and literary journalism appear in such publications as Joyland Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and Kinfolk. Motsoeneng is writing a novel about madness and precarity set in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was born and raised. 

Research Interests

• South African literature and history

• Human rights and literature

• The Novel

• Race and aesthetics 

• African American literature

• Colonial and postcolonial studies