Mardi Oakley Medawar (born 1945) is an American novelist.
Her novels mostly centre on the Kiowa and Crow tribes, and are usually within the mystery genre.
Medawar was born in Olla, Louisiana in 1945, the daughter of an Eastern Band Cherokee father and a French Louisianan mother.
[1][2] She attended San Diego State University and taught writing at several colleges.
[2] As of 2012, she lives on the Red Cliff Chippewa Reservation.