Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, an award-winning author, playwright, poet, freelance writer, and a community arts activist. She was awarded the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in 2020. Rendon's debut novel and the first instalment in the Cash Blackbear series, Murder on the Red River, won the Pinckley Prize for Best Debut Novel. Her follow-up, Girl Gone Missing, was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award. Rendon was recognised as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by Minneapolis AARP and Pollen in 2018. She lives in Minneapolis.