Doctoral Student in English L&L/HZWP MFA Alumni
About
Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng graduated with an M.F.A. in Fiction/Creative Writing from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, where he's currently a PhD student in the Department of English Language & Literature. 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 (Denmark).
He reads 20c. South African history and literature, memory studies and material cultures, and the pastoral novel. Motsoeneng is writing a novel about madness and precarity set in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was born and raised.
