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. He's taught at Wake Forest and Ohio Universities and is currently a residential art faculty member at Estrella Mountain College in Phoenix, Arizona. His epic series on wild edible plants has been exhibited extensively across the United States and a selection can be found in the permanent collection of the George Eastman House Museum.