Daryl Farmer's recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in South Dakota Review, The Laurel
Review, Isotope, Quarter After Eight and Prairie Schooner. He received a B.A. in physical
education from Adams State College (Alamosa, Colorado) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English and
creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is also a graduate of the Rocky
Mountain School of Photography.
Farmer was born in Colorado Springs at the foot of the Rocky Mountains where he developed a
love for the outdoors and a taste for the open road. He set off on his first bicycle tour in 1985, and
has been roaming the country ever since, photographing and writing about the land and its people.
Early in his teaching career, he coached high school basketball in Colorado and New Mexico. He
has since lived and worked in a variety of places including Oregon, New Hampshire, Mississippi
and Alaska, where he taught in the Athabascan village of Nondalton.
In addition to bicycle touring, he has kayaked in the San Juan Islands and off the coast of Maine,
backpacked the Copper Canyon in Mexico, canoed the Macal River in Belize and winter camped
in Alaska’s Denali National Park. Farmer currently holds a Brittain Fellowship at the Georgia
Institute of Technology where he teaches writing. He and his wife, Joan, live in Atlanta and spend
summers in Colorado, in a cabin 9,000 feet above sea level. Bicycling beyond the Divide is his
first book.
Review, Isotope, Quarter After Eight and Prairie Schooner. He received a B.A. in physical
education from Adams State College (Alamosa, Colorado) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English and
creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is also a graduate of the Rocky
Mountain School of Photography.
Farmer was born in Colorado Springs at the foot of the Rocky Mountains where he developed a
love for the outdoors and a taste for the open road. He set off on his first bicycle tour in 1985, and
has been roaming the country ever since, photographing and writing about the land and its people.
Early in his teaching career, he coached high school basketball in Colorado and New Mexico. He
has since lived and worked in a variety of places including Oregon, New Hampshire, Mississippi
and Alaska, where he taught in the Athabascan village of Nondalton.
In addition to bicycle touring, he has kayaked in the San Juan Islands and off the coast of Maine,
backpacked the Copper Canyon in Mexico, canoed the Macal River in Belize and winter camped
in Alaska’s Denali National Park. Farmer currently holds a Brittain Fellowship at the Georgia
Institute of Technology where he teaches writing. He and his wife, Joan, live in Atlanta and spend
summers in Colorado, in a cabin 9,000 feet above sea level. Bicycling beyond the Divide is his
first book.
DARYL FARMER
