Linda LeGarde Grover is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is the coauthor of A Childhood in Minnesota: Exploring the Lives of Ojibwe and Immigrant Families 1880–1920 and the author of a poetry chapbook, The Indian at Indian School. Her 2010 book The Dance Boots won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Grover is an enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa (also referred to as Ojibwe).