Marcie Rendon, enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is a playwright, poet, and freelance writer. Her picture book, Stitches of Tradition was selected for the American Library Association's 2026 Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18 book list. Rendon is the best-selling author of Where They Last Saw Her, MN Book Award winter; and author of the Cash Blackbear crime series, the most recent is Broken Fields. Anishinaabe Songs for the New Millennium, 2024, received the Heartland Booksellers Award in poetry. Rendon was the 2020 MN McKnight Artist of the Year and was on Oprah’s 2020 list of 31 Native American Author’s to read. Under the auspices of Raving Native Theater, Rendon creates and produces work for stage such as TwinCities Public Television’s Art Is…CreativeNativeResilience 2019. Out of Hand Theater, Atlanta, GA had a staged reading of Rendon’s Say Their Names, a script about #mmiw, 2025. Rendon, with poet Diego Vazquez, received the Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with incarcerated women over a 7-year time span.
Rendon is a community arts activist who supports other native artists/writers/creators to pursue their art.