About Martha
Martha Grover is a writer and visual artist living with chronic illness in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of three memoirs: Sorry I Was Gone (self-published in 2021 via a successful Kickstarter campaign), One More for the People (Perfect Day Publishing) and The End of My Career (Perfect Day Publishing). She has been publishing her zine, Somnambulist, since 2003.
Martha is the founder/owner of Grover’s Curiosity Shop, a co-op bookshop and artists’ collective in SE Portland.
“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