James Martin Devaney (31 May 1890 – 14 August 1976) was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist.
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Devaney attended St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, entering the Marist Brothers juniorate in 1904. He took his vows in 1915. Under the pen-name 'Fabian', he contributed between 1924 and 1943 a nature column to the Brisbane Courier (renamed The Courier-Mail after 1933).
Fabian: Poems, Melbourne: Lothian, 1923
The Currency Lass : a Tale of the Convict Days, Sydney: Cornstalk, 1927
The Vanished Tribes, Sydney: Cornstalk, 1929
The Girl Oona, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing Co., 1929
The Witch-Doctor, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930
I-rinka the Messenger, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930
Earth Kindred, Melbourne: Frank Wilmot, Coles Library, 1931
Debutantes: a poem, Hawthorn East, Victoria: The Hawthorn Press, (1939?)
Dark Road, Hawthorn East, Victoria: Hawthorn Press, 1938,
Where the Wind Goes, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1939
Shaw Neilson, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1944
Washdirt: a novel of old Bendigo, Melbourne: Georgian House, 1946
Poems, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1950
