Ariel Gore (born June 25, 1970) is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. Gore has authored more than ten books. Gore's fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity, spirituality, queer culture, and positive psychology. She is the founding editor/publisher of ''

Hip Mama ''Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine'' is an American Alternative Press Award-winning quarterly periodical covering the culture and politics of parenting. The magazine is widely credited with launching the contemporary mothers' movement. The first issu ...

'', an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on ''

'', Gore is widely credited with launching

maternal feminism Maternal feminism is the belief of many early feminists that women as mothers and caregivers had an important but distinctive role to play in society and in politics. It incorporates reform ideas from social feminism, and combines the concepts ...

and the contemporary mothers' movement. Her anthology ''Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City'' won the best "LGBT anthology" at the 22nd annual

Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.The awards were instituted i ...

in 2010.

Early life and education

Ariel Gore was born June 25, 1970, in

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. Her mother, Eve de Bona, was the subject of her book ''The End of Eve'' (2014). Her stepfather, John Duryea, was a priest who had been excommunicated in 1976 by the Catholic Church when he confessed in a sermon that he had fallen in love with Gore's mother. Gore was raised in

Palo Alto Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city was estab ...

, California and attended Addison Elementary School, Jordan Middle School (renamed to Greene Middle School) and two years at

Palo Alto High School Palo Alto Senior High School, commonly referred to locally as "Paly", is a comprehensive public high school in Palo Alto, California. Operated by the Palo Alto Unified School District, the school is one of two schools in the district, the other b ...

. She left high school at age 15 by taking the California High School Proficiency Test. In her book ''Atlas of the Human Heart'' (2003), Gore recounts the period in her life just after leaving high school, when she traveled the world, working odd jobs and squatting in abandoned buildings. She is a graduate of

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...

and the

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Graduate School of Journalism. While attending Mills College in the 1990s, Gore was a young, single mom raising her daughter.

Work

Hip Mama

The first issue of ''Hip Mama'' was published in December, 1993, in

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as part of Gore's senior project while attending Mills College. Published quarterly, the magazine relocated to Portland, Oregon in the 1990s. It was created as a forum for single, urban, and feminist mothers. Each issue had a broad theme which the content would explore via various types of writing and graphics. In 2014, Gore moved back to Oakland and relaunched ''Hip Mama'' with expanded food, arts, and political coverage. "It's the quality of the writing that sets ''Hip Mama'' apart," noted ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

''.

''Atlas of the Human Heart'' (1998)

Her lyrical memoir, ''Atlas of the Human Heart'', recounts Gore's teenage years and her travels. This book was a 2004 finalist for the

Oregon Book Award The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. ...

Teaching

She has taught as a faculty fellow at The Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, Oregon,

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in Albuquerque, and at the

Institute of American Indian Arts The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a public tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The college focuses on Native American art. It operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), which is housed in the historic S ...

(IAIA) in Santa Fe. She currently teaches at Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers (or The Literary Kitchen).

Personal life

Gore is openly

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the lat ...

and has two children, a daughter and a son. After living in

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for many years, Gore and her family moved to Oakland, California in approximately 2014 and lived there for 3 years before moving to New Mexico. Gore's daughter, Maia Swift, has worked as an

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for her mother's

magazine and helped her co-author ''Whatever, Mom: Hip Mama's Guide to Raising a Teenager'' (2004).

Bibliography

Nonfiction

*Gore, Ariel (1998). ''The Hip Mama Survival Guide: Advice from the Trenches''. Hyperion. *Gore, Ariel (2000). ''The Mother Trip''. Seal Press. *Gore, Ariel (2003). ''Atlas of the Human Heart''. Seal Press. *Gore, Ariel with Swift, Maia (2004). ''Whatever, Mom: Hip Mama's Guide to Raising a Teenager''. Seal Press. *Gore, Ariel (2007). ''How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights''. Three Rivers Press. *Gore, Ariel (2010). ''Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. * *Gore, Ariel (2019). ''Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance''. Seal Press. *Gore, Ariel (2020). ''F*ck Happiness''. Microcosm Publishing.

Novels

*Gore, Ariel (2006). ''The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show.'' HarperSanFrancisco. *Gore, Ariel (2017). '' We Were Witches.'' The Feminist Press.

Anthologies

*Gore, Ariel (2004). ''The Essential Hip Mama: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting''. Seal Press. *Gore, Ariel, with Lavender, Bee (2001). ''Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers''. Seal Press *Gore, Ariel (2009). ''Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City''. Lit Star Press/Microcosm Publishing

References

External links

Gore's websiteAriel Gore's Bluebird: Women & Happiness
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