The Long Train of Chaos

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.