Laurence Musgrove is Professor of English at Angelo State University, where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing. He also served from 2009 to 2019 as a department chair.
Laurence received his BA in English from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and his Ph.D. in English with a specialization in rhetoric and composition from the University of Oregon, Eugene. He taught previously at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville and Saint Xavier University in Chicago, where he held positions in writing program administration.
Laurence is the author of four poetry collections, and his poems have appeared in a variety of regional and national publications. He was elected to the Texas Institute of Letters in 2025.
Laurence offers workshops on THE HIDDEN STATE & THE RHETORIC OF POETIC CAMOUFLAGE and on the five causes of beauty in poetry: shape, line, music, comparison, and balance.
He also offers webinars and on-site workshops on six foundational worldviews in Buddhism: causality, impermanence, interbeing, suffering, equanimity, and freedom.