Linda LeGarde Grover facts for kids

Linda LeGarde Grover is a talented writer from the Anishinaabe people. She writes novels and short stories. She is a member of the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She used to be a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she taught about American Indian Studies. She also writes a column for the Duluth News Tribune newspaper.

About Linda LeGarde Grover

Linda LeGarde Grover was born in 1950. She is Ojibwe and grew up in Minnesota.

Her Amazing Books and Awards

Linda LeGarde Grover has won many awards for her writing. Her first collection of short stories was called The Dance Boots. This book won the Flannery O'Connor Award. It also won the 2011 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.

Her poetry collection, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives, also won an award. It received the Red Mountain Press Editor's Award. In 2017, it won the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry.

Linda LeGarde Grover's first novel is titled The Road Back to Sweetgrass. This book won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers 2015 Fiction Award. An earlier version of this book also won the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book Award in 2008.

People have praised The Road Back to Sweetgrass. Indian Country Media Network said it was special because it showed a clear and beautiful view of modern American Indian life. Her writing often includes Ojibwe words, which helps readers learn more about the culture.

Linda LeGarde Grover also wrote a collection of essays called Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year. This book won the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. Her books help readers understand the lives and experiences of Ojibwe people.