Author, Teacher, Wanderer
Bio
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…
Books
Where We Land: Stories (Brighthorse Books, 2016) Daryl Farmer writes about parts of the country where dreams go to be born or to die, places where the most unforgiving landscape is the human heart. Set in the western United States and in the…
Media
Writing Samples: https://www.clippings.me/darylfarmer Listen to Daryl discuss Where We Land and Bicycling beyond the Divide on some of his favorite radio stations: South Dakota Public Radio interview, March, 2018: http://listen.sdpb.org/post/beyond-divide-author-daryl-farmer Interview with KUAC and Northern Soundings’ Robert Hannon: Community by Community: Author Daryl Farmer
Skagaströnd, NES Residency
“Iceland AGAIN!!” exclaims my friend Kelly Grey Carlisle.* Yep. I’m here again. Part of the reason I came to bicycle here this summer was to get my fill of it. Not to get tired of it, exactly, but to feel I knew the…
Laugur to Goðafoss to Akuyeri
In Laugur, after a short ride on a very bumpy road, I found what has so far been my favorite campground in Iceland. It was un-crowded, surrounded by trees, giving a rare sense of privacy, and the grass where I pitched my tent had…
The Bus Ride to Vik
The bus driver drove like the proverbial hellbat, as if he was behind schedule, And perhaps he was. Perhaps he was behind schedule because of the bicyclist, and the bike that needed to be fit into a space in a bin beneath the bus, since…