Short version:
Arie Farnam is a newspaper correspondent turned fiction writer, a tree-hugging herbalist, a legally blind wilderness hiker, the off-road mama of two awesome kids, an idealist with a practical streak and author of the Kyrennei Series. She grew up outside La Grande, Oregon and spent twenty years living and working in Central and Eastern Europe.
Long version:
Arie Farnam grew up on Pumpkin Ridge on the edge of the Grande Ronde Valley and attended La Grande and Spray high schools. She has been legally blind since birth and has always been interested in social inclusion in all forms. When she was twenty-two, she graduated from Lawrence University with a BA in Slavic linguistics and struck out for Eastern Europe to work as a freelance newspaper reporter. After writing about conflict and social problems for The Christian Science Monitor and Business Week in Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and the Ukraine, she settled in the Czech Republic and married her patient and unflappable husband Dušan. She has traveled and written in over thirty countries to date, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Ecuador as well of most of Central and Eastern Europe. She also produced and directed the documentary film Walls about school segregation and Romani children in the Czech Republic. She has now returned to La Grande, Oregon where she is growing a garden, trying to live on the earth in a sustainable way, attending graduate school at Eastern Oregon University and writing like the world is on fire.
Write to Arie at farnamarie (AT) gmail (DOT) com or the contact page for more options.
