Laurence Musgrove is Professor of English at Angelo State University, where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing. He was elected to the Texas Institute of Letters in 2025.
Laurence received his BA in English from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon, Eugene. He taught previously at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville and Saint Xavier University in Chicago.
Laurence is the author of four poetry collections, and his poems have appeared in a variety of regional and national publications, including Southwestern American Literature, Voices de la Luna, Windward Review, and Vox Populi.
Laurence offers workshops for writers on the five causes of beauty in poetry. He also offers webinars and on-site workshops for meditation centers and sanghas on the six ways of mind in Buddhism: causality, impermanence, interbeing, suffering, equanimity, and freedom. Contact Laurence to discuss.