Marguerite CostiganMarguerite Costigan is a professional artist, naturalist, and life-long poet. She began writing poetry as a child on her artist-father's farm in rural Pennsylvania. In high school, her work was included in a national poetry anthology. A 44-year translant to California, her poems embrace multiple themes: the human condition, the environment, war and love. Her work has appeared in Blood and Thunder, Café Solo, Asylum, the anthology Poems for Endangered Places, and the international journal Le Fenetre. She has taught with the California State Poets in the Schools program, has been reading her work live before Central Coast audiences since the 1970s, and was proclaimed San Luis Obispo County Poet Laureate 2015 and 2016 by the Board of Supervisors. Two of Marguerite's poetry collections have been published: Rock & Fire and War & Whispers. Marguerite lives in San Luis Obispo with her musician/writer husband and two plump cats. Read More Read Less