Marcie Rendon


Marcie Rendon 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, 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 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.

Education

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.

Career

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.

Awards

Children's Non-Fiction