Gothataone Moeng

About

Gothataone Moeng is a Botswana-born writer whose fiction explores family relationships, women’s experiences, cultural traditions, and the changing realities of contemporary Botswana. Born in Serowe, she draws on her familiarity with both rural communities and urban life to create intimate stories grounded in the country’s social and cultural landscape. Moeng has received several prestigious writing fellowships, including the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University, a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and support from the Tin House Summer Workshop. She also held an Emerging Writer Fellowship at A Public Space. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. Her fiction has appeared in literary publications including American Short Fiction, One Story, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and Oxford American. Her debut collection, Call and Response (2023), received critical acclaim for its lyrical prose, nuanced female characters, and sensitive portrayal of family life in Botswana. Through her writing, Moeng brings international attention to contemporary Botswana while exploring universal questions of love, identity, tradition, and belonging.