Background
Ariel Gore was born on June 25, 1970, in California, Missouri, United States.
Ariel received Bachelor of Arts at Mills College.
After that she earned Master of Arts in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
(In her last book, outspoken urban mom Ariel Gore offered ...)
In her last book, outspoken urban mom Ariel Gore offered help for real-world mothers. In The Mother Trip, she gives her inspiration, encouragement, and moral support to unconventional moms. In these essays, she bashes the stereotype of the "good mother" and encourages readers to follow their instincts and redefine motherhood in their own terms. In her last book, outspoken urban mom Ariel Gore offered help for real-world mothers. In The Mother Trip, she gives her inspiration, encouragement, and moral support to unconventional moms. In these essays, she bashes the stereotype of the "good mother" and encourages readers to follow their instincts and redefine motherhood in their own terms.
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2000
(Like Jack Kerouac’s intrepid little sister, Ariel Gore sp...)
Like Jack Kerouac’s intrepid little sister, Ariel Gore spins the spirited story of a vulnerable drifter who takes refuge in the recesses of the human heart. With just a few pennies and her I Ching, a change of clothes and a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, a perceptive, searching Gore makes her way through the labyrinthine customs of Cold-War China, wanders bustling, electric Katmandu, and hunkers down in an icy London squat with a prostitute and a boyfriend on the dole. Yet it is in the calm, verdant landscape of rural Italy where, pregnant and penniless, nineteen-year-old Gore’s adventure truly begins.
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2003
(26 Short Memoirs by Portland Writers We are doctors, wait...)
26 Short Memoirs by Portland Writers We are doctors, waitresses, housewives, and punks; grandmothers, rockstars, and runaways. We're third generation Northwesterners or we've only just arrived. We complain about the rain, but we don't seem to mind it that much. We drink a lot of coffee and beer. We've been telling stories, in one way or another, for as long as we can remember. Collectively, we are brilliant. We write, rewrite, edit, and occasionally just start over. Sometimes we ignore the facts to tell the truth. Or we change names to protect the guilty. We bank on chance and skate on by. We are a community of writers who gather at The Attic on Hawthorne Boulevard in Portland, Oregon. And we have a story to tell. Thanks for listening.
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2005
(Orphaned at age four and raised by her black-clad, rosary...)
Orphaned at age four and raised by her black-clad, rosary-mumbling, preoccupied grandmother, Frankka discovered the ability to perform the stigmata as a way to attract her grandmother's attention. Now twenty-eight, Frankka's still using this extraordinary talent, crisscrossing the country with "The Death and Resurrection Show," a Catholic-themed traveling freak show and cast of misfits who have quickly become her new family. But when a reporter from the Los Angeles Times shows up to review the show, Frankka finds herself on the front page of the newspaper - the unwitting center of a religious debate. Now unsure of who she is and where she belongs, Frankka disappears in search of herself and a place to call home.
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2006
(This may come as a shock, but brilliant writing and cleve...)
This may come as a shock, but brilliant writing and clever wordplay do not a published author make. True, you’ll actually have to write if you want to be a writer, but ultimately literary success is about much more than putting pen to paper (or fingers to keys). Before you snap your pencil in half with frustration, please consider the advice writer, teacher, and self-made lit star Ariel Gore offers in this useful guide to realizing your literary dreams. If you find yourself writing when you should be sleeping and scribbling notes on odd pieces of paper at every stoplight, you might as well enjoy the fruits of your labor. How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead is an irreverent yet practical guide that combines solid writing advice with guerrilla marketing and promotion techniques guaranteed to launch you into print—and into the limelight.
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2007
(CAN A WOMAN BE SMART, EMPOWERED, AND HAPPY ? Happiness ha...)
CAN A WOMAN BE SMART, EMPOWERED, AND HAPPY ? Happiness has become a serious business. Where twentiethcentury psychology focused on depression and illness, in the new millennium scientists have begun focusing on positive psychologythe study of happiness. Ariel Gore first became intrigued by this subject when she discovered that Positive Psychology was the most popular course on the Harvard campus. As she read deeper into the topic, she noticed something disturbing: everyone in this happy land was a man.
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2010
(This new book by Ariel Gore brings out all of the dirt on...)
This new book by Ariel Gore brings out all of the dirt on 1970s suburban hippies. Through an authentic voice, funny stories alternate between warming and saddening your soul. It's a queer love story. But it's also got no shortage of shame, violence, and Barbie envy. It's about the pretty people she used to know in Californiathe people she wanted to be but never quite felt she was. "How was I to know that all the pretty people got their answers from TV?" This new book by Ariel Gore brings out all of the dirt on 1970s suburban hippies. Through an authentic voice, funny stories alternate between warming and saddening your soul. It's a queer love story.
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2011
(At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything she’s always wanted:...)
At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything she’s always wanted: a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter in college and a son in preschool. But life’s happy endings don’t always last. If it’s not one thing, after all, it’s your mother. Her name is Eve. Her epic temper tantrums have already gotten her banned from three cab companies in Portland. And she’s here to announce that she’s dying. Pitifully, Ariel,” she sighs. You’re all I have.” Ariel doesn’t want to take care of her crazy dying mother, but she knows she will. It’s the right thing to do, isn’t it? And, anyway, how long could it go on? Don’t worry,” Eve says. If I’m ever a burden, I’ll just blow my brains out.” Amidst the chaos of clowns and hospice workers, pie and too much whiskey, Ariel’s own ten-year relationship begins to unravel.
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2014
(Buying into the dream that education is the road out of p...)
Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she’s there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag’s pyramid to analyze life. So Ariel turns to a rich subcultural canon of resistance and failure, populated by writers like Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldúa, Tillie Olsen, and Kathy Acker. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single mother. She’s beset by custody disputes, homophobia, and America’s ever-present obsession with shaming strange women into passive citizenship.
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2017
(In this volume, Mai’a Williams shares her experiences wor...)
In this volume, Mai’a Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza. She first went to Palestine in 2003 to support Palestinians resisting Israeli occupation. In 2006, she became pregnant in Bethlehem, West Bank. By the time her daughter was three years old, they had already celebrated with Zapatista women in southern Mexico and survived Israeli detention, and during the 2011 Arab Spring they were in the streets of Cairo protesting the Mubarak dictatorship. She watched the Egyptian revolution fall apart and escaped the violence by moving to Europe. But three years later, she and Aza were camping at Standing Rock in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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2019
Ariel Gore was born on June 25, 1970, in California, Missouri, United States.
Ariel received Bachelor of Arts at Mills College. After that she earned Master of Arts in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
Ariel Gore is the creator of the parenting magazine Hip Mama and its offshoot, "The Hip Mama Survival Guide", a book on parenting for the nineties and beyond. After dropping out of high school in Palo Alto, California, at age sixteen. Gore traveled in Europe. In Italy she gave birth to Maia, a daughter fathered by a man with whom she had lived for a time in an abandoned building in Amsterdam. When Gore returned to the United States, she lived for a time with her parents. She later found that she could not support herself and her daughter, so she went on public assistance for six years, which allowed her to earn journalism degrees.
While working for local newspapers. Gore discovered that she lacked the objectivity needed to work in traditional journalism. Her first published articles appeared in Sonoma County Women’s Voices. Then she started writing about parenting. She didn’t think the mainstream parenting rags would be charmed by her radical notions, so she started her own zine.
That magazine, Hip Mama, was actually conceived as a senior project for Gore’s journalism program. “A bunch of friends were over and we were making spaghetti and I said, ‘I wonder if we have a peer group,’” recalled Gore to Lori Eicktnann of the Chicago Tribune. When Gore realized that she was not alone in her lifestyle and values, she suspected that she might have a large potential audience of nontraditional parents. The quarterly magazine, which debuted in 1994, contains a wide variety of material, including practical articles on parenting and dealing with the welfare system, personal experience pieces, reviews, artwork, and recipes. Many articles are contributions from the magazine’s ten thousand subscribers.
Although at first reluctant to go on the internet with her periodical, in 1997 Gore took Hip Mama on-line because so many people asked her to do it. Lower-income mothers often have access to the internet through public libraries and colleges and universities, and the on-line magazine has become a clearinghouse tor information on the rapidly changing welfare laws in this country. Gore says she knows from first-hand experience that she could not support herself and her laughter and attend college at the same time. Without Welfare help, she would not be where she is today — a college graduate able to support her family.
While finishing her master’s degree, Gore wrote a "Proposal for a parenting" book based on the material in her magazine. When Hyperion bought The Hip Mama Survival Guide, Gore was elated. “I walk into my work seeing whatever I need. I walked into my zine seeking kindred spirits and found them. I walked into The Hip Mama Survival Guide seeking something easy to swallow without the side-effects of Prozac,” Gore told Amazon.com. Writing while Maia was at school or asleep at night. Gore gathered the many voices of her peer group. "The Survival Guide" reached bookstore shelves in 1998.
She has also taught at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. She currently teaches online at Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers.
(In this volume, Mai’a Williams shares her experiences wor...)
2019(Orphaned at age four and raised by her black-clad, rosary...)
2006(At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything she’s always wanted:...)
2014(Buying into the dream that education is the road out of p...)
2017(Like Jack Kerouac’s intrepid little sister, Ariel Gore sp...)
2003(26 Short Memoirs by Portland Writers We are doctors, wait...)
2005(This may come as a shock, but brilliant writing and cleve...)
2007(CAN A WOMAN BE SMART, EMPOWERED, AND HAPPY ? Happiness ha...)
2010(In her last book, outspoken urban mom Ariel Gore offered ...)
2000(This new book by Ariel Gore brings out all of the dirt on...)
2011She thinks about art in an all-encompassing way, whether that means keeping a printing press in a spare room or feeding meticulously cooked dinners to a group of student writers during a weekend workshop.
Quotations: “Everybody knows it because Virginia Woolf said it: you need money and a room of your own if you’re going to write. But I’ve written five books, edited three anthologies, published hundreds of articles and short stories, and put out thirty-five issues of my zine without either one. If I’d waited for money and a room, I’d still be an unpublished welfare mom…”
Novelist Marc Acito called her “an adventurer, the Indiana Jones of literature.” She has raised a little hell and a lot of eyebrows with her gritty ability to look reality in the face without flinching. She is original, witty, fierce, and funny. She is prolific, reliable, poetic, and smart.
Quotes from others about the person
Ariel Gore takes some of the heaviest life work – caring for a difficult, terminally ill parent – and somehow through her writing transforms it into a funny, interesting, moving experience. Her work is like origami in that way – capable of changing one solid thing into something entirely different, and beautiful, because of the way she looks at the world. Totally unique, and very inspiring.
Gore has a daughter, Maia Swift, born on February 7, 1990, and a son, Maximilian Gore-Perez, born on August 26, 2007.