Linda Legarde Grover is professor emerita of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.
Her book of stories The Dance Boots was the winner of the Flannery O\'Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize..
Her books The Road Back to Sweetgrass, Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year, In the Night of Memory, and Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong , all from Minnesota, have earned numerous awards, including the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards for Poetry, Memoir, and Fiction; and a Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction.
Linda Legarde Grover is professor emerita of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe