Marcie Rendon

Marcie Rendon (born 1952) is a Native American playwright, poet, author, and community arts activist based in Minneapolis. She is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation. She is the founder of Raving Native Productions (theatre), and along with various plays, screenplays, poems and short stories, has written 2 non-fiction books for children, and 2 crime fiction novels. Her first novel "Murder on the Red River" won the 2018 Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction. Her second novel "Girl Gone Missing" was shortlisted for an Edgar award in January 2020 (The G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award) Her most successful theatre work to date is "Free Frybread Telethon", a play which satirises the American prison system and its treatment of Native Americans.

Rendon graduated with a BA in Criminal Justice and a BA in Indian Studies from Moorhead State University in 1975. In 1991 she graduated with a MA in Human Development from St Mary's of Winona in Minneapolis.

Rendon applied to the Loft Inroads program where she met Anishinabe writer Jim Northrup who became her mentor. She founded Raving Native Productions in 1996.

• 2018 Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction (Murder on the Red River)
• 2002 Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Award (Farmer's Market)
• 2002 WLA Children's Book Award (Farmer's Market)
• 1997 Nomination for Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Sciences (Pow Wow Summer)

Children's Non-Fiction

• Powwow summer : a family celebrates the circle of life (1996, Carolrhoda Books)
• Farmer's market : families working together (2001, Carolrhoda Books)

Crime Fiction

• Murder on the Red River (2017, Cinco Puntos Press)
• Girl Gone Missing (2019, Cinco Puntos Press)