Ariel Gore

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Ariel Gore
Born (1970-06-25) June 25, 1970 (age 54)
Carmel, California, U.S.
Alma mater Mills College
University of California, Berkeley
Occupation(s) Journalist, Author
Family John Duryea (stepfather)

Ariel Gore (born June 25, 1970) is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. Gore has authored more than ten books. [1] Gore's fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity, spirituality, queer culture, and positive psychology. 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.

Contents

Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the best "LGBT anthology" at the 22nd annual Lambda Literary Award in 2010. [2] [3]

Early life and education

Ariel Gore was born June 25, 1970, in Carmel, California.[ citation needed ] Her mother, Eve de Bona, was the subject of her book The End of Eve (2014). [4] [5] 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. [6] Gore was raised in Palo Alto, California and attended Addison Elementary School, Jordan Middle School (renamed to Greene Middle School) and two years at Palo Alto High School. [7] [8] She left high school at age 15 by taking the California High School Proficiency Test. [7] 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. [7] [8]

She is a graduate of Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.[ when? ][ citation needed ] While attending Mills College in the 1990s, Gore was a young, single mom raising her daughter. [9]

Work

Hip Mama

The first issue of Hip Mama was published in December, 1993, in Oakland, California as part of Gore's senior project while attending Mills College. [10] Published quarterly, the magazine relocated to Portland, Oregon in the 1990s. [11] It was created as a forum for single, urban, and feminist mothers. [10] Each issue had a broad theme which the content would explore via various types of writing and graphics. [11]

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 . [12]

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.[ citation needed ]

Teaching

She has taught as a faculty fellow at The Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, Oregon, [13] University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, [14] and at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe.[ citation needed ] She currently teaches at Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers (or The Literary Kitchen). [14]

Personal life

Gore is openly queer and has two children, a daughter and a son. [15] After living in Portland, Oregon 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. The family moved back to Oakland in 2024. [5] [15] [14]

Gore's daughter, Maia Swift, has worked as an art director for her mother's Hip Mama magazine [5] and helped her co-author Whatever, Mom: Hip Mama's Guide to Raising a Teenager (2004).

Gore was married to chef Deena Chafetz from 2013 until Chafetz's death from metastatic breast cancer in 2023.

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Novels

Anthologies

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  3. ↑ Valenzuela, Tony (2010-05-10). "22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  4. ↑ Gore, Ariel (2016-12-14). "The Year We Were Jewish: My Mother, Rachel Dolezal, White Nationalism, and Me". Hawthorne Books. Archived from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  5. 1 2 3 May, Meredith (2014-02-03). "Hip Mama founder also a dutiful daughter". SFGate. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
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  9. ↑ "The Hippest Mama: Mutha Magazine Interviews ARIEL GORE". Mutha Magazine. 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  10. 1 2 Chun, Kimberly (1998-10-16). "She's No June Cleaver / Hip Mama Ariel Gore offers parenting tips for biker chicks and welfare moms". SFGate. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  11. 1 2 O'Reilly, Andrea (2010). Encyclopedia of Motherhood. SAGE Publications. p. 488. ISBN   9781452266299.
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  13. ↑ Wang, Amy (2019-09-11). "The Attic celebrates 20 years of seeding Portland's literary culture". oregonlive. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
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