Dawn McGuire is a neurologist and award-winning author of three poetry collections, including The Aphasia Café (IF SF, 2012). She grew up in eastern Kentucky and was educated at Princeton University, the Union Theological Seminary, and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. The 2011 winner of Sarah Lawrence’s Campbell Corner Poetry Contest, McGuire serves as professor of neurology at the Morehouse School of Medicine and divides her time between Atlanta and the San Francisco Bay Area.