Paul Edward Costa is a writer, spoken word artist, teacher, and the 2019-2021 Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga. He has featured at many poetry reading series in the Greater Toronto Area and has published over 60 poems, stories, and articles in literary journals such as Bewildering Stories, Lucent Dreaming Magazine, Entropy Magazine, Gyroscope Review, POST-, and Alt-Minds Literary Magazine. His novella, Dark Magic on the Edge of Town, was put out in 2017 with the hybrid publisher Paperback-Press. He curates/hosts the YTGA Open Mic Series at Studio.89, has co-organized/hosted the Mississauga Arts Council's Verses Out Loud Poetry Series, and has won the Mississauga Arts Council's 2019 MARTY Award for Emerging Literary Arts.