Marcie R. Rendon

Marcie R. Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation, is one of O: The Oprah Magazine’s 31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now and a McKnight Distinguished Artist Award winner. Where They Last Saw Her, Penquin/Random, May 2024. Her debut novel, Murder on the Red River received the Pinckley Women’s Debut Crime Novel Award and was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award, Contemporary Novel category; and her second novel, Girl Gone Missing, was nominated for the Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award. Her script, Say Their Names, will be produced by Out of Hand Theater, Atlanta, GA. And her script, Sweet Revenge, had a staged reading at the Playwright Center, Mpls., MN. The creative mind of Raving Native Theater, she curated TwinCities Public Television’s Art Is…CreativeNativeResilience. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the Loft’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for work with incarcerated women.