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 has taught writing and literature
at the University of Nebraska and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Stephen F. Austin State University in
Nacogdoches, Texas where he lives with his wife, Joan. Bicycling beyond the Divide is his
first book.
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 has taught writing and literature
at the University of Nebraska and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Stephen F. Austin State University in
Nacogdoches, Texas where he lives with his wife, Joan. Bicycling beyond the Divide is his
first book.
DARYL FARMER
