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Derick Varn was born in Augusta, Georgia. He has visited and or/lived in most of the American East Coast, but always, strangely, returns to Georgia. He was prepped to go to art school during high school because he could paint and draw. After doing ‘zine art for four years and feeling like his taste in art outstripped his talents, Derick decided to study anthropology. Within a year Derick decided that being an anthropological journalist was his first bad idea, so he studied dead artists, writers, and philosophers instead. He did not abandon art, however, doing both oil painting and body art as a passion (read: hobby) outside of his education. He also pushed into interdisciplinary movements in the poetic and book arts. Derick Varn has a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at Georgia College and State University where he served as assistant editor for Arts and Letters: A Journal of Contemporary Arts. Derick served as managing editor for the now-defunct Milkwood Review, wrote music reviews for the now-defunct Crass Menagerie music e-zine, and edited and did cover art for the defunct ‘zines K.O.T.S.U., Y, and Chaos Theory. Other things you can pretend to care about: He won the Frankeye Davis Mayes/Academy of American Poets Prize in 2003. He is one of the featured literary artists in In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Volume 3, and has recently published poems in Backwards City Review and Toronto Quarterly.
Derick sincerely believes that everyone needs to dance around their house naked at least once a week. Being declared an ethicist has made him a general misanthrope; most good ethicists are. He loves tomatoes and thinks that loving such fruit is profound. He does not like to speak in third-person because he understands that it is a sign of insanity, but so is art and literature. He has vowed no longer to be witty in biographies that are included in literary journals of any medium. He currently lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife and several cats. During the day he works as a secondary school teacher. At night he writes and paints.
All submissions of visual art and movies should be sent to Derick at Derick AT unlikelystories DOT org.