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Ms. Melissa Laussmann

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Title
Academic Counselor
Location
Bolin Hall
Room
136
Institution Degree Graduation Date
Midwestern State University M.A. 2019
Midwestern State University B.A. 2016
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Awards & Nominations

  • Touchstone Poetry Award Nomination for "storm brewing." Nov. 6, 2024.
  • "You Make a Difference," Staff Senate Award. Midwestern State University, Nov. 2024.
  • First Place recipient in the adult category for poetry for "One Day at the Rhine." North Central Texas College, April 2023. Published in Sonder by North Central Texas College.
  • Outstanding Graduate Woman, Midwestern State University, 2018.
  • Celebration of Scholarship- Best Podium Presentation in the graduate level. Midwestern State University, April 2017.
  • Outstanding English Student, Midwestern State University, 2016.
  • Vinson Creative Writing Award for "Song of the Sufi." Midwestern State University, 2015.

Creative Writing & Academic Publications

*In progress- "Haiku and the Primordial Breath."

*In progress- "Mindfulness and Academic Advising."


  • "sipping tea." Cold Moon Journal, June 30, 2025.
  • "crescent moon." Cold Moon Journal, May 29, 2025.
  • "mother's hands." Under the Basho, March 27, 2025.
  • "chimney smoke" and "traffic jam." Cold Moon Journal, March 9, 2025.
  • "stillness" and "sea mist." Blue Anthology by Human Obscura, Winter 2024.
  • "ebb and flow." Shadow Pond Journal, Issue No. 3, Summer 2024.
  • "Ewigkeit." Amethyst Review Magazine, April 2024
  • "untitled." Beautiful Poetry Journal, vol. 24, Silent Spark Press, March 2023.
  • "A Day at the Rhine." Sonder: The Annual Review for North Central Texas College, Spring 2023.
  • "Morning Meditation" published in Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2019.
  •  "Who says awareness is light?" and "Earth Song" published in Poetry Quarterly, Spring 2018.
  • "Landscape of Change: An Ecocritical View of Willa Cather's My Antonia," Agora vol. 24, Article 12, 2015.


Numerous additional creative writing publications not listed here.


Presentations

  • "The Art of Seeing: Tracing the Paths of Mindfulness in Works by Muir, Dillard, and Snyder." 62nd ASAT Conference, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX. Nov. 8, 2018.
  •  Red River Reading Series, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX. Dec. 4, 2017.
  • "Willa Cather's Landscape of Change." Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX. Nov. 2017.
  • "How Deans of Women Changed Academia." Celebration of Scholarship, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX. May 2017.