Rickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review Online, among other magazines. He holds an MA in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His writing seeks to honor his ancestors’ experiences. His first novel, The Devil Three Times, is forthcoming from Little Brown May 2025. [Fiction]