Gothataone Moeng is a 2023-2024 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a 2022-2023 Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Her writing has also received fellowships and support from Tin House, where she was a 2019 Summer Workshop scholar and from A Public Space, where she was a 2016 Emerging Writer Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, One Story, A Public Space and Oxford American, amongst others. She holds an MFA Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Mississippi. She was born in Serowe, Botswana.

Books by Gothataone Moeng

Call and Response: Stories

by Gothataone Moeng - Fiction, Short Stories

A young widow adheres to the expectations of wearing mourning clothes for nearly a year, though she's unsure what the traditions mean or whether she is ready to meet the world without their protection. An older sister returns home from a confusing time in America, only to explain at every turn why she’s left the land of opportunity. A younger sister hides her sexual exploits from her family, while her older brother openly flaunts his infidelity. The stories collected in CALL AND RESPONSE are strongly anchored in place --- in the village of Serowe, where the author is from, and in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana --- charting the emotional journeys of women seeking love and opportunity beyond the barriers of custom and circumstance.