About
Marcie Rendon, enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is a playwright, poet, and freelance writer. Rendon’s debut novel, Murder on the Red River (Cinco Puntos Press) will be available March 2017. She has four published nonfiction children’s books; two are Pow Wow Summer (MN Historical Press) and Farmer’s Market: Families Working Together (CarolRhoda). With four published plays she is the producer, creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, which produced Bring the Children Home… at the MN Fringe 2015 and 3 community-based venues in 2015-16. She also co-curated 6 Raving Native Date Nights in Minneapolis, 2016. In 2016-17 she is a recipient of the Loft’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship with poet Diego Vazquez. Her poem Wiigwaasabak will be featured in the St. Paul Almanac’s Impressions Project Summer 2017. Rendon is a community arts activist who supports other native artists/writers/creators to pursue their art.
Featured Work
Where They Last Saw Her
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough.
Other Works
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Stitches of Tradition
2024
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Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium
2024
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Sinister Graves
2022
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Girl Gone Missing
2021
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Murder on the Red River
2017
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Pow Wow Summer
2014
Awards and Recognition
- Minnesota Book Award Finalist 2022 for Sinister Graves
- Girl Gone Missing nominated for the Sue Grafton Award 2021
- Pinckley Debut Novel of the Year Award, 2017