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Dewaine Farria

Biography

Dewaine Farria

Dewaine Farria’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, CRAFT, Rumpus, the Southern Humanities Review and on the Afropunk website. He is a coeditor at the Maine Review. He holds an MA in international and area studies from the University of Oklahoma and an MFA in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. As a US Marine, Farria served in Jordan and Ukraine. Besides his stint in the military, Farria has spent most of his professional life working for the United Nations, with assignments in the Russian North Caucasus, Kenya, Somalia and Occupied Palestine.

Dewaine Farria

Books by Dewaine Farria

Revolutions of All Colors
by Dewaine Farria - Fiction

Gabriel Mathis, a 23-year-old aspiring fantasy writer and reluctant Russophile, travels to Ukraine to teach English and meets the love of his life: an international arms dealer very much out of his league. Simon --- a former Special Forces medic, torn over a warped sense of duty and a child he did not want --- returns to the US to pursue his dream of becoming a mixed martial artist. After spending his adolescence defending his bisexuality, Michael makes his mark in New York’s fashion industry while nursing resentment for a community that never accepted him. Dewaine Farria traces the lives of brothers Michael and Gabriel and their friend Simon from adolescence to their mid-20s, through Oklahoma, Afghanistan, New York, Somalia, Ukraine and New Orleans.