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.