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Linda LeGarde Grover's "The Dance Boots" won the esteemed Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press in 2009. Only two such awards are given out annually, and a ...

Selected by Maggie Nelson as a 2017 finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction! In her new memoir, Martha Grover goes undercover. Whether cleaning houses or looking for love, she peels ...

ERIC JACOBSON: (As Grover) This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I am lovable, furry old pal, Grover. And I'm Steve Inskeep. Our co-host there is a Muppet from "Sesame Street." He's here because both ...