Tricia Crawford CosciaTricia Crawford Coscia's poems have appeared in A & U: America's AIDS Magazine, the anthology Literature from the First Twenty Years of A&U (Black Lawrence Press), Connecticut River Review, Many Colored Brooms, Parting Gifts (March Street Press), the2018 anthology, 50/50: Poems & Translations by Women Over 50 (Quills Edge Press), and Peregrine Journal. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Bluegrass Writers Studio in 2018, which included residencies in Kentucky and at the Disquiet International Program in 2017. Tricia was named a finalist in poetry in the 2019 Disquiet International Literary Contest and was a runner-up for 2017 Bucks County, Pennsylvania Poet Laureate. She writes with concern for social and environmental justice, inspired by years of work in supporting humanitarian causes, and currently works for Witness to Innocence, a program that supports and empowers death-row exonerees in their advocacy to end the death penalty. Tricia is a mother of four teenagers and young adults and lives in a small town along the Delaware River with her husband Joe, their children and a menagerie. Read More Read Less