How did you become a writer? I have always written and decided in 1991 to try and make my living as a writer. Lights, heat and gas in the car have been my measure of success to date.

Name your writing influences (writers, books, teachers, etc.). I would have to say other crime writers as that is who I read voraciously – John Sanford, Lee Child, Henning Mankell and the like. Currently reading Ramona Emerson, S.A. Cosby, Eli Cranor and Daniel Kenitz, author of Perfect Home.

When and where do you write? At my kitchen table, any chance I get.

What are you working on now? I am writing a second stand alone crime novel as a follow-up to Where They Last Saw Her – and book 5 in the Cash Blackbear series.

Have you ever suffered from writer’s block? I think I am always working on too many projects to ever really have a block; I just move between projects.

What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever received? To just write, and then write some more.

What’s your advice to new writers? The next step after writing is to risk rejection and SUBMIT your work. 

Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, and freelance writer. A community arts activist, Rendon supports other native creators to pursue their art, and is a speaker on Native issues, leadership, writing.

The award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear crime series with an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works, Rendon’s latest release was the crime novel, Where They Last Saw Her.

The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon curates community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience, with three Anishinaabe performance artists, on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television), 2019. 

Rendon was listed in Oprah’s 2020 list of 31 Native American Author’s to read. She received the 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award. She was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN, 2018. Rendon and Diego Vazquez received a 2017 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with incarcerated women.

 Anishinaabe Songs for the New Millinneum-UofM Press - July24

Where They Last Saw Her-Penquin/Random Sept 3, 24

Stitches of Tradition-Heartdrum Oct 2024

Broken Fields-Soho-Cash4 - Spring2025

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