Mid-State Technical College’s seventh annual Wisconsin Writers Connect will be hosted on the Colleges’ Stevens Point Campus on Tuesday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m. The event will include a celebration of the winners of Mid-State’s writing contest, Write on the Money. 

The contest winners will have an opportunity to read from their winning entries. Chia Gounz Vang and Freesia McKee, two renowned Wisconsin authors, will also give readings from some of their most popular work.

Chia Gounza Vang is a Hmong American author and teacher. She was born in Laos during the Vietnam War conflict and had limited access to education. Her life changed when she immigrated to America as a teenager, which allowed her to pursue her dreams. She has been a middle school teacher for twenty-two years. She is the author of “The Illiterate Daughter” as well as “Dreamer’s Dream,” both books in the Young Guardian series. 

Freesia McKee writes about gender, genre, history and place. She works in poetry, creative prose, book reviews and literary criticism. Freesia is an assistant professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and she is the author of two poetry chapbooks, “How Distant the City” and “Hummingbird Vows.”

Learn more about the event and the featured authors at mstc.edu/wiwriters.