Carrie R. Moore & Rickey Fayne

Carrie R. Moore is the author of Make Your Way Home, a story collection exploring Black love and longing in the American South. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories, Oprah Daily, The Sewanee Review, One Story, and other publications. She earned her MFA in Fiction at the Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature and was the inaugural fellow at the Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat. Born in Georgia, she currently resides in Texas with her husband.

Rickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee. His debut novel, The Devil Three Times, was published by Little Brown in May of 2025