Marcie R Rendon
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.
Works

Murder on the Red River
This debut novel introduces us to Cash, a tough-as-nails, smarter-than-your-average nineteen-year-old. When a body is found in a local field and law enforcement needs help identifying the victim, Cash starts dreaming about the dead man's reservation house and a family waiting.