Rickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee whose work has appeared in the New York Times, American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other magazines. He holds an M.A. in English from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His first novel, The Devil Three Times, was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and longlisted for the Pen Open Book Award.
His writing embodies his Black, Southern, over-churched upbringing in order to reimagine and honor his ancestors' experiences. He has received support for his writing from Tin House, Community of Writers, Kimbillio, Sewanee, Yaddo, Willapa Bay, and MacDowell. Currently, he teaches fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
At MacDowell, Fayne worked toward the completion of a novel about Black morticians in 1960s Chicago.
