Aaron McGuffin is a Appalachian poet and physician who is completing an MFA in poetry at West Virginia Wesleyan University. His work explores the liminal space of whimsy and gravity in family, memory, medicine, and Appalachian life. His poems have appeared in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Intima, Pharos, Literary Hatchet, As the Crow Flies, Red Ogre Journal, and ContiguousLyt, with work forthcoming in Appalachian Journal, Hobo Camp Review, Exclamation Mark! and Rat's Ass Review.



