John Feffer

John Feffer (born 1963) is an author and currently director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is a fellow at the Open Society Foundations. His books include Crusade 2.0 (City Lights, 2012), a description of contemporary attacks on Islam; North Korea/South Korea: US Policy and the Korean Peninsula, a description of current US policy towards Korea and its limitations; Power Trip, a narrative of American unilateralism during the George W. Bush administration; and Living in Hope, a description of creative responses by local communities to the challenges of globalization. His latest book, Pandemic Pivot (Seven Stories Press, 2020), reflects on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for transformative change coming out of the pandemic.

Feffer is a contributor to The Huffington Post. He has written the satirical plays The Pundit and The Politician, performed in 2012 and 2013 respectively at Washington's Capital Fringe Festival.

Awards and fellowships Herbert W. Scoville Fellowship (1988)

Written works Foamers: A Novel of Suspense (Scribner, 1997) All Over the Map (Smashwords, 2012) Crusade 2.0 (City Lights Publishers, 2012) Splinterlands (Haymarket Books, 2016) Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe's Broken Dreams (Zed Books, 2017) Frostlands (Haymarket Books, 2018) Splinterlands Book 2 The Pandemic Pivot: A Report from the Institute for Policy Studies, The Transnational Institute, and Focus on the Global South (Seven Stories Press, 2020) Songlands (Haymarket Books, 2021) Splinterlands Book 3