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Marcie Rendon
Marcie Rendon
Marcie Rendon at the 2022 Texas Book Festival
Born1952 (age 73–74)
Occupation
  • Playwright
  • poet
  • writer
LanguageEnglish
Alma materMoorhead State University (BA)
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota (MA)
GenreJuvenile nonfiction, crime fiction
Notable awardsMcKnight Foundation's Distinguished Artist Award (2020)[1]
Website
marcierendon.com

Marcie Rendon (born 1952)[2] is a Native American playwright, poet, author, and community arts activist based in Minneapolis.[3][4] She is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.[4]

Rendon founded Raving Native Productions theater.[5] Along with various plays, screenplays, poems, and short stories, she has written two nonfiction books for children and five crime fiction novels.[2][6] Her first novel Murder on the Red River won the 2018 Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction.[7] Her second novel Girl Gone Missing was shortlisted for the 2020 G. P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award.[8] Her most well-known theatre work is Free Frybread, a mock telethon play which satirizes the American prison system and its treatment of Native Americans.[5][9][10]

Early life and education

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Rendon was born in Norman County, Minnesota in 1952.[11]

Rendon graduated from Moorhead State University in 1975 with two Bachelor of Arts degrees, in criminal justice and Indian studies. In 1991 she graduated with a Master of Arts in human development from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.[2]

Career

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In the early 1990s, Rendon won the Loft’s Inroads Writers of Color Award and was mentored by Anishinaabe writer Jim Northrup.[2][12] She founded Raving Native Productions in 1996.[5]

In 2016, Rendon received the Loft's Spoken Word Immersion fellowship. In 2017, her poetry appeared in the Saint Paul Almanac's Impressions project.[13]

In June 2019, Rendon was featured in Visual Collaborative's Polaris catalogue as part of the Voyager series for humanities.[14][15][16] Rendon was the first Native American woman to receive the McKnight Foundation's 2020 Distinguished Artist Award.[1]

Awards and honors

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Works

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Children's nonfiction

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  • Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life (1996, Carolrhoda Books)[20]
  • Farmer's Market: Families Working Together (2001, Carolrhoda Books)[21]

Crime fiction

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Short stories

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  • "Wingless" in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (ed. Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., 2023, Vintage Books)[29]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Combs, Marianne (23 August 2020). "McKnight Foundation names Ojibwe author Marcie Rendon Distinguished Artist of the year". MPR News.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Steeves, Carolyn (2002-11-20). "Marcie Rendon". Voices from the Gaps, University of Minnesota.
  3. ↑ "In Conversation with Indigenous Author Marcie Rendon: 'I Come From a People Who…'". Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
  4. 1 2 Rendon, Marcie R. (2026-02-05). "Letter From Minnesota: We Are a People Born and Bred of Organizers". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
  5. 1 2 3 Hobbes, Dwight (18 February 2009). "MN VOICES | Marcie Rendon". Twin Cities Daily Planet. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  6. 1 2 Battistella, Maureen Flanagan (2025-05-01). "An Interview with Marcie Rendon". Literary Ashland.
  7. 1 2 "Past Winners". Pinckley Prizes. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
  8. ↑ "Category List – Sue Grafton Memorial Award". Edgar® Awards Info & Database. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
  9. ↑ Samek, Katie (2025-02-23). "Faribault County Reads: Where They Last Saw Her". Faribault County Register. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
  10. ↑ Hobbes, Dwight (2026-04-03). "An Author's Author". the alley Newspaper. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
  11. ↑ Holding Eagle III, Mathew (2022-12-22). "Marcie Rendon's long journey to award-winning novelist". MPR News. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  12. ↑ "Marcie Rendon (Authors)". Strong Nations. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  13. ↑ "Marcie R. Rendon". The Poetry Foundation. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  14. ↑ "Marcie Rendon". Visual Collaborative. May 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  15. ↑ "U.S based Festival Platform Visual Collaborative features Seun Kuti & Other Africans". BellaNaija. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  16. ↑ "Seun Kuti, Chris Uwaje, Others to be featured on Visual Collaborative". This Day. 2019-06-17. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  17. ↑ "Outstanding Book Awards". Wisconsin Library Association. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21.
  18. ↑ "Author and Arts Activist to Address 2020 Graduates in Virtual Ceremony". Adler University. 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  19. ↑ Tostrud, Alexandra (2025-02-11). "Minnesota Book Awards Announce 2025 Finalists". Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. Retrieved 2026-03-28.
  20. ↑ Rendon, Marcie R; Bellville, Cheryl Walsh (1996). Powwow summer: a family celebrates the circle of life. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books. ISBN 978-0-585-34120-0. OCLC 47011928.
  21. ↑ Rendon, Marcie R; Bellville, Cheryl Walsh (2001). Farmer's market: families working together. Carolrhoda Books. ISBN 978-1-57505-462-9. OCLC 44117885.
  22. ↑ Rendon, Marcie R. (2017). Murder on the Red River. Cinco Puntos Press. ISBN 978-1-941026-52-6. OCLC 945948756.
  23. ↑ "Murder on the Red River". Soho Press. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  24. ↑ Rendon, Marcie R. (2019). Girl gone missing. Cinco Puntos Press. ISBN 978-1-947627-11-6. OCLC 1055914927.
  25. ↑ "Girl Gone Missing". Soho Press. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  26. ↑ "Sinister Graves". Soho Press. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  27. ↑ "Where They Last Saw Her". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  28. ↑ Locke, Deborah (April 5, 2025). "Rendon's new book delivers fast-paced plot set in Red River Valley". The Circle.
  29. ↑ "Never Whistle at Night: 9780593468463". PenguinRandomHouse.com. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
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