Linda LeGarde Grover is an award-winning author and professor emeritus of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. An enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe, she writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that explore Ojibwe life in northeastern Minnesota. Her acclaimed short story collection "The Dance Boots" won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, while her novel "The Road Back to Sweetgrass" received the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Fiction Award. Grover's poetry collection "The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives" earned both the Red Mountain Press Editor's Award and the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry.
Grover's work illuminates Ojibwe traditions, family dynamics, and the impacts of historical and contemporary events on Indigenous communities. Her memoir "Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year" won the Minnesota Book Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, and her novel "In the Night of Memory" received the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. She also coauthored "A Childhood in Minnesota: Exploring the Lives of Ojibwe and Immigrant Families 1880–1920" and published the poetry chapbook "The Indian at Indian School." Through her multifaceted writing career, Grover preserves and celebrates Ojibwe experiences with lyrical precision and cultural insight.