HACKENSACK — The Northwoods Arts Council will host award-winning author Marcie R. Rendon to present “Writing Local: the land, the people, the history” at 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, at United Congregational Church in Hackensack.
The event is free, but reservations are required at northwoodsartscouncil.org.
Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, freelance writer and a community arts activist. Rendon supports other Native artists, writers and creators to pursue their art and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues, leadership and writing.
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Rendon is the author of the award-winning “Cash Blackbear” crime novel series set in the Red River Valley and nearby reservations. Her latest book, “Sinister Graves,” was inspired by an isolated Idaho graveyard about 15 years ago.
She is working with Out of Hand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, to produce her script “Say Their Names.” Rendon was listed in Oprah’s 2020 list of 31 Native American authors to read.
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She received Minnesota’s 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award.
Rendon will be selling and signing her books after the presentation.
For more information about the author and her books, visit
A donation from the Hackensack Lions funded this presentation.
