Kristien Potgieter
- PhD student - Creative Writing
- Department: School of Creative Industries
- Campus: Corsham Court
Personal statement
Kristien is a Creative Writing PhD student, writer, editor and dancer from Johannesburg, South Africa.
She was a recipient of the prestigious UEA Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship at the University of East Anglia, and her short fiction has been published in print and online.
Academic qualifications
- MA, Creative Writing - University of East Anglia
- BA (Hons), English - University of the Witwatersrand
- BA (Hons), French - University of Pretoria
Thesis title
Diverse representations of the ballerina in middle grade and young adult fiction
Research supervisors
Lucy Christopher and Tracy Brain
Research interests
Creative writing, dance fiction, diversity in middle grade and young adult fiction, South African literature.