Bio

Antonio Farias has published short fiction in Sudden Fiction Latino, Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul, Latino Boom, Urban Latino Magazine, and Bilingual Review. He has lectured widely on the history of collaboration amongst underrepresented populations in the United States, the unsteady rise of the Latino middle class, and the emergence of post-ethnic identities and coalitions. He has taught Comparative Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley, Colgate University, and Hunter College.  He holds a Masters in Comparative Ethnic Studies and a Bachelors in Comparative Literature/Creative Writing from the University of California, Berkeley.  He currently serves as the Chief Diversity Officer at a New England engineering college, where he champions a systems thinking approach to equity in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM). Outside of work, he spends the bulk of his time helping his 9-year-old daughter imagine a better world (and that vegetables are the new candy).  He is currently finishing a novel and a collection of short stories and can be reached here