Doctoral Student in English L&L/HZWP MFA Alumni
About
Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng writes fiction and is a doctoral student in English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He holds an an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the Helen Zell Writers' Program and a B.A. in English and Human Rights Studies from Trinity College, Connecticut.
For his writing Motsoened has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Novel Prize and Fredrick Busch Award. He has published fiction in such publications as Joyland Magazine, Lolwe, and Praire Schooner and others.
His scholarly interests include the novel, 20th c. South African literature, comparative blackness, and postcolonial studies.
Motsoeneng is currently at work on a novel about madness and precarity set in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was born and raised.
