Marcie Rendon

Early life and education Rendon was born in Norman County, Minnesota in 1952.

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. She founded Raving Native Productions in 1996.

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

Awards and honors 1997: Nomination for Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Sciences (Pow Wow Summer) 2018: Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction (Murder on the Red River)

Works

Children's nonfiction 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, republished by Soho Press in 2022) Girl Gone Missing (2019, Cinco Puntos Press, republished by Soho Press in 2022) Sinister Graves (2022, Soho Press) Where They Last Saw Her (2024, Bantam Books) Broken Fields (2025, Soho Press)

Short stories

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