Marcie Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation. Rendon received the McKnight Foundation 2020 Distinguished Artist Award and was listed in the Oprah Daily 2020 list of “31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now.” Girl Gone Missing, Rendon’s second Cash Blackbear mystery series novel, was nominated for the Mystery Writers of America – G.P. Putnam’s Son’s Sue Grafton Memorial Award. The first novel in the series, Murder on the Red River, received the 2018 Pinckley Prize for Debut Novel. Sinister Graves will be released in October 2022 and her children’s book, Stitches of Tradition, is forthcoming from Heartdrum in 2024. She has had four plays published. Out of Hand Theater will produce her script, “Say Their Names,” in their 2022 Theater in Homes project.