Bill Griffin

Bill Griffin is a poet, essayist, and nature photographer who explores in his writing themes of ecology, community, and the search for meaning. He lives in the North Carolina foothills; since retiring after 40 years as a small town family physician he has become a full time naturalist. He guides nature hikes, maintains a section of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, and has completed over thirty annual USGS  Breeding Bird Surveys. His latest poetry collection, Permanence and Flux, is forthcoming in 2027 from Iron Oak Editions.