Marcie Rendon

Marcie Rendon (born 1952)[2] is a Native American playwright, poet, author, and community arts activist based in Minneapolis.

[3] Along with various plays, screenplays, poems and short stories,[2] she has written two nonfiction books for children,[2] and three crime fiction novels.

[2] Rendon applied to the Loft Inroads program where she met Anishinabe writer[6] Jim Northrup who became her mentor.

[3] Rendon was chosen as the first Native American woman to receive the McKnight Foundation's 2020 Distinguished Artist Award.

[1] In June 2019, Rendon was featured in the Visual Collaborative Polaris catalogue, under the Voyager series for humanities, she was interviewed alongside 25 people from around the world such as; Seun Kuti, Berla Mundi and Aya Chebbi.