I live adjacent to the Skarland Trail in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I can walk through the boreal forest and note the intricate daily and seasonal shifts. The crisp creak of birch branches in winter, the spring chirps of the chickadees, the featherlike fall of the leaves in autumn. For me, the writing process begins not on the page, but in these daily walks, where my sensory awareness of the details around me deepens. My mind clears. It is through an understanding of place that I consider stories and how they inhabit our day to day lives.
Meet Daryl
Daryl Farmer is the author of Where We Land, a collection of short stories and Bicycling Beyond the Divide, winner of a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and also named as a Colorado Book Award finalist.
He 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 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.
He has taught writing at Georgia Tech. University, Stephen F. Austin State University in east Texas and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks where he is currently an assistant professor and director of the MFA in Creative Writing program.
