Ariel Gore (born June 25, 1970, in Carmel, California) is a journalist, novelist, and nonfiction author. She is the founding editor and 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.
The San Jose Mercury News has called her "Conservative America's worst nightmare."
In 2000, Working Woman magazine named Gore one of "20 Under 30" influential women in America.
Her lyrical memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, which recounts Gore's teenage travels, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She is a graduate of Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Gore has a daughter, Maia Swift, born February 7, 1990, and a son, Maximilian Perez, born August 26, 2007. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.[1]