Rendon founded Raving Native Productions theater.[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. Her first novel Murder on the Red River won the 2018 Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction.[4] Her second novel Girl Gone Missing was shortlisted for the 2020 G. P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award.[5] Her most successful theatre work to date is "Free Frybread Telethon", a play which satirizes the American prison system and its treatment of Native Americans.[3]
Rendon applied to the Loft Inroads program where she met Anishinabe writer[6]Jim Northrup who became her mentor.[2] She founded Raving Native Productions in 1996.[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 CollaborativePolaris 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.[7][8][9]
Awards and honors
2018: Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction (Murder on the Red River)[4]
2002: Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Award (Farmer's Market)[2]
2002: WLA Children's Book Award (Farmer's Market)[10]
1997: Nomination for Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Sciences (Pow Wow Summer)[2]
↑ Rendon, Marcie R; Bellville, Cheryl Walsh (1996). Powwow summer: a family celebrates the circle of life. Minneapolis, Minn.: Carolrhoda Books. ISBN978-0-585-34120-0. OCLC47011928.
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