Daryl Farmer

Daryl Farmer was born in Colorado Springs, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains where he developed a taste for the open road at an early age, and has spent a life roaming the country and writing about its landscapes and people. He has lived in New Mexico, Oregon, New Hampshire, Mississippi and Alaska, among other places. He is the author of the forthcoming WHERE WE LAND, a collection of short stories and BICYCLING BEYOND THE DIVIDE, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover pick and a Colorado Book Award finalist.

He received a B.A. in physical education from Adams State College (Alamosa, Colorado) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His fiction, nonfiction and poetry has appeared in several literary journals including Whitefish Review, Grist, Hayden’s Ferry Review, South Dakota Review, and Fourth River.

He has taught writing at Georgia Tech. University, Stephen F. Austin State University in and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks where he is currently an assistant professor and director of the MFA in Creative Writing program.