Marcie R. Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation, is one of O: The Oprah Magazine’s 31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now and a McKnight Distinguished Artist Award winner. Her debut novel, Murder on the Red River, received the Pinckley Prize for Debut Novel Award and was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award, Contemporary Novel category, and her second novel, Girl Gone Missing, was nominated for the G. P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award. Her script, Say Their Names, will be produced by Out of Hand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. And her script Sweet Revenge had a staged reading at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The creative mind of Raving Native Theater, she curated Twin Cities Public Television’s Art Is . . . CreativeNativeResilience. Rendon received the Loft Literary Center’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship with co-creator Diego Vazquez for their work with incarcerated women.
Praise for Where They Last Saw Her “Rendon’s book will break your heart, but it will also inspire and inform.”—Kirkus Review “Rendon masterfully navigates the histories of trauma and brutality that continue to exist within our Native communities, laying bare the truths of colonial violence and the continuing need for closure and justice in our homelands.”—Ramona Emerson “An expert and uncompromising storyteller, Marcie Rendon aims her extraordinary powers on a no-holds barred story that will devastate and enrage you—and renew your belief in the power of community and the strength in women’s hearts. Where They Last Saw Her is unmissable.”—Katie Gutierrez Praise for Marcie Rendon “To my delight I have a feeling that Rendon is only getting started.”—Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Night Watchman “Rendon writes the way Anishinaabe people view the world—full of rich descriptions and layered storytelling.”—Angeline Boulley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper’s Daughter “Rendon is a master storyteller.” —Oscar Hokeah, author of Calling for a Blanket Dance “Heart-stopping, heartrending, and heartening, often all at the same time.”―Linda LeGarde Grover, author of The Road Back to Sweetgrass “Powerful, textured, and haunting.”—Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity “[Rendon] is one heck of a mystery novelist.”—Oprah Daily “As a storyteller in general, Rendon is masterful.”—The Circle: Native American News and Arts “[Rendon] skillfully handles sobering social issues.”—Library Journal