Doctoral Student in English L&L/HZWP MFA Alumni
About
Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng is a doctoral student in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where also graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing (Prose). He obtained a B.A. in English and Human Rights Studies from Trinity College-Connecticut. 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.
He doctoral research focuses on c.20th South African and African American literature, along with memory studies in the Global South. Motsoeneng is writing a novel about madness and precarity set in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was born and raised.
