Wisconsin Writers Connect
Hear From Great Authors–Support Student Writers
Come out to hear Wisconsin authors read from their works during this special evening with renowned authors Marcia Bjornerud and Ron Rindo. We’ll also celebrate the winners of our student writing contest, Write on the Money.
Refreshments provided. No registration is necessary.
When & Where
Wednesday, April 22 • 6:30 p.m.
Stevens Point Campus • Community Engagement Room – Room 635
Student Awards
After reading, the writers will present the student winners of Mid-State's Write on the Money Contest with their awards. The student winners will also have the opportunity to read from their winning entries.
Author Bios
Marcia Bjornerud
Marcia Bjornerud is Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Bjornerud’s research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building, combining field-based studies of bedrock with quantitative models of rock mechanics. She has worked in high arctic Norway (Svalbard) and Canada (Ellesmere Island), as well as mainland Norway, Italy, New Zealand, and the Lake Superior region.
Bjornerud is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Universities of Oslo (Norway) and Otago (New Zealand). She has worked with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission to block mining projects that threatened the waters of Lake Superior.
A contributing writer to The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, she is also the author of several books for popular audiences: Reading the Rocks, Geopedia, Timefulness (longlisted for the PEN/E.O.Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing) and Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (winner of the Burroughs Medal for Natural History writing).
She is a cross-country skier, wild food forager, and mother of three grown sons.
Ron Rindo
Ron Rindo is a recently retired Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, specializing in American literature, nature writing, and fiction writing.
Rindo’s fiction and essays have appeared in a wide variety of journals and magazines, and he has published three collections of short stories and two novels: Suburban Metaphysics and Other Stories, Secrets Men Keep, Love in an Expanding Universe, Breathing Lake Superior, and Life, Death, & Giants. Published by St. Martin’s Press Life, Death & Giants received a starred review from Kirkus. About the novel, Larry Watson wrote, “Rindo has performed literary magic.” Nickolas Butler states Rindo “has crafted a novel that is remarkably generous, kind, and graceful. This is a novel that still believes in magic, goodness, and everyday heroes.”
Also a trout fisherman, gardener, and orchardist, he and his wife raised their blended family of five children on five acres in Pickett, Wisconsin.
