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.
Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won a Lambda Literary Award in 2010.Īriel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. 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. 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, 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. So Ariel turns to a rich subcultural canon of resistance and failure, populated by writers like Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzald a, Tillie Olsen, and Kathy Acker. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag's pyramid to analyze life.
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.
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