Daryl Farmer is the author of Bicycling beyond the Divide, a nonfiction book that chronicles a bicycle ride across the US West, and Where We Land a collection of short fiction. His recent work has appeared in Terrain.org, Ploughshares, and Natural Bridges among other literary journals. He is a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where he teaches creative writing, has served as director of the MFA program, and is affiliated faculty for the Arctic and Northern Studies program. For six years, he served as a faculty member at the University of Alaska Anchorage low-residency MFA program.