PAUL EDWARD COSTA held the position of Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga from 2019-2021. He has an enormous reputation as a writer, spoken word artist and teacher and has featured at many poetry readings. He has published over 60 poems and stories in literary journals and in 2019 he received the Mississauga Arts Council 2019 MARTY Award for Emerging Literary Arts. Paul lives in Mississauga and is a teacher in a local high school.