Dewaine Farria

Dewaine Farria is the author of the novel  Revolutions of All Colors (Syracuse University Press, December 2020). Dewaine’s short stories and essays have appeared in Literary Hub, the New York Times, Rumpus, the Southern Humanities Review, CRAFT, War on the Rocks, Afropunk, and the anthology, Our Best War Stories: Prize-winning Poetry and Prose from the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Award (Middle-West Press, October 2020). He has received fellowships from the National Security Education Program (2004), the MacDowell Colony (2021, 2022), and the National Endowment for the Arts (2022). Besides his stint in the U.S. Marine Corps, Dewaine spent most of his professional life working for the United Nations, with assignments in the North Caucasus, Kenya, Somalia, and Occupied Palestine. He is presently based in the Philippines as the head of the Asian Development Bank’s Field Security Unit with responsibility for 45 field offices across Asia and the Pacific, including operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, and the Mindanao region of the Philippines.