Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, and freelance writer. As a community arts activist, Rendon supports other native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art. Rendon is an award-winning author of a fresh new Cash Blackbear murder mystery series. She has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works.

2024 will see the release of Rendon's first poetry book, Anishinaabe Songs for the New Millennium from UofM Press; a new stand-alone crime novel, Where They Last Saw Her from Penquin/Random, and Stitches ofTradition, a children's picture book from Heartdrum.

As the creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon's script, Sweet Revenge, had a sold out staged reading at the Jungle Theater, March 2024. She has also curated community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists, which premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television), June 2019.

Rendon was honored with the 2020 McKnight Artist of the Year award, and was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN in 2018. Rendon and Diego Vazquez received a 2017 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women incarcerated in county jails.