She is a graduate of Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the LAMBDA Literary Award in 2010. Her lyrical memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, which recounts Gore's teenage travels, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award. In 2000, Working Woman magazine named Gore one of "20 Under 30" influential women in America. Writer and cultural commentator Susie Bright has called her "One of the best feminist writers of our times-perhaps the most eloquent and sensitive." Gore's fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity, spirituality, queer culture, and positive psychology. "It's the quality of the writing that sets Hip Mama apart," The New Yorker noted. Through her work on Hip Mama, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers' movement. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher.
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