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. His debut novel, The Devil Three Times, was published in May 2025 by Little, Brown and Company. 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. [Fiction]