Ariel Gore

Ariel Gore (born June 25, 1970, in Carmel, California) 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,...