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Jimmy Fike


About

Jimmy Fike was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1970. He earned a BA in art from Auburn University and an MFA in photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. His photographic work on edible wild plants has been exhibited extensively across the United States, was featured in the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Atlas Obscura, and Mother Jones, and can be found in the permanent collections of the Eastman House Museum, Bank of America, Bernheim Research Forest, and St. Lawrence University. His book, Edible Plants, was published by Indiana University Press in March 2022. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his daughter Isobel and dog Scrappy, and he works as residential art faculty at Estrella Mountain Community College.

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