Sanderia Faye

Sanderia Faye (Smith) is the author of the novel, Mourner’s Bench, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in debut fiction, The Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit for fiction, and the 2017 Arkansas Library Association, Arkansiana Award. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Southwest Review and several other publications. She received a doctor of philosophy, PhD, in English from the University of North Texas, and serves on the creative writing faculty at Southern Methodist University. She is co-founder of Kimbilio Center for Fiction, Co-Leader at Pen America DFW, founder of LitNight Reading Series, and Executive Director for the Dallas Literary Festival.