Author of the poetry collection Local Bird, Laurence Musgrove is professor of English at Angelo State University where he teaches creative writing, literature, drawing to learn, comics, and mindfulness. His poems have appeared in Southern Indiana Review, Concho River Review, descant, Elephant Journal, Inside Higher Ed, Buddhist Poetry Review, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Southwestern American Literature, Ink Brick, and New Texas. He is also co-editor with Terry Dalrymple of the anthology Texas Weather, a collection of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on the power and beauty of weather in the Lone Star State.