Gothataone Moeng

Born, raised, and currently living in Serowe/Botswana.

Gothataone Moeng is a writer. She is the author of the story collection Call and Response, published in 2023 by Penguin Random House/Viking in the USA and Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom. In 2024, Call and Response was awarded a Whiting Award, which recognizes and supports emerging writers. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing (fiction) from the University of Mississippi, USA, in 2017 and holds a bachelor’s degree in media studies from the University of Botswana (2007).

She has held fellowships at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, as the 2023–2024 Carol Houck Fellow in Fiction; at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts/USA (2022–2023); and at Stanford University, USA, as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction (2018–2020).

She has also received support from the Jan Michalski Foundation, Montricher/Switzerland, where she was a resident from March to May 2025; from Tin House, USA, where she was a 2019 Summer Workshop Scholar; and from A Public Space, where she was a 2016 Emerging Writer Fellow. She is currently at work on a novel.