Dean Francis Alfar (born 2 January 1969), is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of speculative fiction.
His plays have been performed in venues across the country, while his articles and fiction have been published both in his native Philippines and abroad, such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the Exotic Gothic series.
[1] He is the author of the novel Salamanca (Ateneo Press, 2006), as well as three collections of short fiction - The Kite of Stars and other stories (Anvil Publishing, 2007), How to Traverse Terra Incognita (Visprint, 2014), and A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila (Anvil Publishing, 2015).
He is an advocate of the literature of the fantastic, editing the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, as well as a comic book creator.
He lives in Manila with his wife, fictionist Nikki Alfar[1] and their two daughters.