Trish Dugger has lived in Cardiff by the Sea for 60 years. Born in Chicago and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, she married after two years of college. She and her husband moved to California and raised a family of one daughter and three sons. Widowed in 1998, she became a charter member of THE FULL MOON POETS. In 2005 she was proclaimed Poet Laureate of Encinitas. She is a charter member of THE PLEASURES OF POETRY WORKSHOP led by Harry Griswold. In 2009 she was a featured poet at BORDER VOICES POETRY FAIR in San Diego.