![]() She earned her BA in communications from Mills college and her Master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. In previous writings, Portland-based Gore has revealed snippets of her earlier years, but in Atlas she reacquaints herself with that tumultuous time. She rambled back home a few years later as a new teen mom. Now, Gore has released Atlas of the Human Heart (Seal Press 14.95), a memoir that chronicles her journey from teenagedom to motherhoodand across Asia to Europe. The Utne Reader said, “Ariel Gore’s transformation from globetrotting teenager to the hippest of mamas reads like a movie script about a Gen-X slacker following her bliss to unlikely success.”īorn and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ariel ran away from high school at age 16 to become an international bag lady. Still, The New Yorker raved: “It’s the quality of the writing that sets Hip Mama apart.” Over the years, the zine featured many new and emerging writers. She founded the award-winning parenting zine Hip Mama back in 1993. She is currently at work on a memoir titled Lung Cancer Noir. ![]() Ariel Gore‘s books include Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the critically acclaimed writing guide How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead (Three Rivers), the Booksense pick novel The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, the Oregon Book Award finalist Atlas of the Human Heart, and cult classic The Hip Mama Survival Guide. ![]()
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