Ariel Gore
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Ariel Gore is a journalist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama
, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on Hip Mama
, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers' movement. "It's the quality of the writing that sets Hip Mama apart," The New Yorker noted (May, 2000). Gore's fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity, spirituality, queer culture, and positive psychology.
Cultural commentator Susie Bright has called her "One of the best feminist writers of our times— perhaps the most eloquent and sensitive."
In 2000, Working Woman magazine named Gore one of "20 Under 30" influential women in America.
Her lyrical memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, which recounts Gore's teenage travels, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award
. Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the LAMBDA Literary Award in 2010. She is a graduate of Mills College
and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Gore has a daughter, Maia Swift, born February 7, 1990, and a son, Maximilian Perez, born August 26, 2007. She has taught at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon, and at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. http://www.arielgore.com/
Hip Mama
Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine is an American Alternative Press Award-winning quarterly periodical covering the culture and politics of parenting...
, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on Hip Mama
Hip Mama
Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine is an American Alternative Press Award-winning quarterly periodical covering the culture and politics of parenting...
, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers' movement. "It's the quality of the writing that sets Hip Mama apart," The New Yorker noted (May, 2000). Gore's fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity, spirituality, queer culture, and positive psychology.
Cultural commentator Susie Bright has called her "One of the best feminist writers of our times— perhaps the most eloquent and sensitive."
In 2000, Working Woman magazine named Gore one of "20 Under 30" influential women in America.
Her lyrical memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, which recounts Gore's teenage travels, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award
Oregon Book Award
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts, Inc. for "the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature." -History:...
. Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the LAMBDA Literary Award in 2010. She is a graduate of Mills College
Mills College
Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...
and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Gore has a daughter, Maia Swift, born February 7, 1990, and a son, Maximilian Perez, born August 26, 2007. She has taught at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon, and at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. http://www.arielgore.com/
Nonfiction Books
- Gore, Ariel (1998). The Hip Mama Survival Guide : Advice from the Trenches. Hyperion. ISBN 0786882328
- Gore, Ariel (2000). The Mother Trip. Seal Press. ISBN 1580050298
- Gore, Ariel (2003). Atlas of the Human Heart. Seal Press. ISBN 1580050883
- Gore, Ariel with Swift, Maia (2004). Whatever, Mom: Hip Mama's Guide to Raising a Teenager. Seal Press. ISBN 1580050891
- 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. ISBN 0307346483
- Gore, Ariel (2010). "Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness".Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374114897
Novels
- Gore, Ariel (2006). The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show. HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0060854286
Anthologies
- Gore, Ariel (2004). The Essential Hip Mama: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting. Seal Press. ISBN 1580051235
- Gore, Ariel, with Lavender, Bee (2001). Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers. Seal Press ISBN 1580050514
- Gore, Ariel (2009). Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City. Lit Star Press/Microcosm Publishing ISBN 1934620653
External links
- Gore's website
- Ariel Gore's Bluebird: Women & Happiness, interview, February 2010