Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won a LAMBDA Literary Award in 2010.

Her memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. She is a graduate of Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. If you’re dealing with precarious parenthood, queer identity, and debt, what is the true narrative shape of your experience?Īriel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. But even as the narrator struggles to graduate―often the triumphant climax of a dramatic plot―a question uncomfortably lingers. She’s beset by custody disputes, homophobia, and America’s ever-present obsession with shaming strange women into passive citizenship. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single mother. THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2017 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT. An official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event.

Mixing up genre, format, and feminist voices for an unforgettable event. With Aya de Leon ( The Boss), Elisa Albert ( After Birth), Katherine Arnoldi ( The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom), Thi Bui ( The Best We Could Do), and Samantha Barrow ( Jelly), emcee’d by MUTHA’s editor-in-chief, Meg Lemke. Join them for a night of fiction, poetry, memoir, and live-reading of projected comics from new graphic novels, headlined by Hip Mama founder Ariel Gore ( We Were Witches). Mama Takes the Mic - Magic and Madness from Storytellers at MUTHA and Hip Mama MagazineĪlternative Parenting Mags Hip Mama and MUTHA, and the Feminist Press, team up to bring you a radical night of readings from mothers who speak their mind. *Disregard the notification that will appear after Booking.* Send the name of the event and number of attendees to our RSVP email. Please fill out the “Bookings” form at the bottom of this page. 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street the Archway)

Atlas of the Human Heart by Ariel Gore