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, 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. His writing embodies his Black, Southern upbringing in order to reimagine and honor his ancestors’ experiences.
2025 Festival Sessions
The Cost of Freedom
Saturday, November 8,
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Kirkus Tent
The Past Echoes On: Multigenerational Stories of the Black American South
Sunday, November 9,
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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