Dr. Daryl Farmer, assistant professor with Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of English and Philosophy, will be guest speaker at the Attoyac Writers’ Guild on Tuesday, Feb. 17 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Attoyac River Gallery, located on Shelbyville Street, downtown Center square. Farmer will discuss his own personal writing process and experiences with his topic "What Riding a Bicycle Taught Me about Writing."
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.
More information on Farmer can be discovered by visiting his website at http://www.darylfarmer.com/.
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