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I’m a Portland writer/artist
creating modern folk art
& whatever the hell I want

About Martha Grover,

Writer and Artist

I’m Martha Grover, a multidisciplinary artist and writer creating emotional, nostalgic folk art, and personal essays. I also dabble in surrealistic fiction, painting, and songwriting. Learn more about me here.

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Sorry I Was Gone

What if the worst thing that ever happened to you was also the funniest? Sorry I Was Gone exposes to absurdity the arbitrary metrics by which we judge our lives.

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Support Martha Grover’s work

I’m a working Portland artist, and I rely on Patreon subscribers so I can keep creating artwork. My subscribers receive zines, illustrations, essays, and poetry. Depending on your subscription level, you’ll even receive a twenty percent off code for everything in my online shop!

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“I devoured Martha Grover’s End of My Career on the plane. Frank, funny, sad at times—beautifully observed. It doesn’t matter what she writes, I’m gonna want to read it. She’s that kind of writer.”

—Jeff Vandermeer, NYT Bestselling author of Borne and The Southern Reach Trilogy

“Grover takes the decidedly mundane and rotates in the light of her dead-aim wit.”

—Maggie Nelson, Award-winning author of Bluets and The Argonauts

“With immense vulnerability, wit and insight, [Martha Grover] writes about so much—money, sex, chronic illness.”

—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things