Eden Arielle Gordon
School
Barnard College Of Columbia University
Expertise
Arts, Culture, History
- Eden is a passionate lover of weird and alternative histories, and her work in travel writing for Untapped Cities and other sites has inspired her to dive deeper and deeper into the secret and hidden stories of the world's most magical places.
- Eden spent two years researching the history of female Beat poets for a musical she wrote, and her love of poets, writers, artists, and their favorite haunts and secret pastimes knows no bounds.
- Eden has extensive experience writing about arts and culture and has interviewed a wide range of artists over the years for many different websites.
Experience
Eden Arielle Gordon has written and edited for Lilith Magazine, Untapped Cities, Popdust, and MagellanTV, among many other publications, and she currently works as a freelance writer based in San Francisco. She is also a singer-songwriter, composer, and climate activist. She's perpetually learning new things and falling down strange and obscure research rabbit holes.
Education
Eden Arielle Gordon received her B.A. in English and creative writing from Barnard College of Columbia University, graduating magna cum laude in 2019. While at Barnard, she studied writing, philosophy, and critical theory at Columbia University and completed a thesis about the art and impossibility of telling stories about refugee crises.
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Stories By Eden Arielle Gordon
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Aztecs, like many early civilizations, used stories to understand the world around them. Here is what Aztec mythology really says about the agave plant.
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Stevie Nicks is best known for her iconic music and style, but she also had a number of whirlwind love affairs in her life, many of which made headlines.
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Rapper Scarface has been the very image of Southern hip-hop for years. He's now bounced back from COVID, but what else does he have planned for his career?
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"Antiques Roadshow" is a television show that follows appraisers as they traverse the U.K. and other countries, searching for treasure amid heaps of trash.
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New Order was a highly influential British rock band who played a defining role in the '80s music scene and left an indelible impact on electronic music.
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The story of Caesarion, the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, is both tragic and key to understanding the complex history of the Roman Empire.
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The Hopi people are a Native American tribe who, today, mostly inhabit northeastern Arizona, where they have resided since approximately A.D. 500-700.
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Adam and Eve's journey out of the Garden of Eden is one of the Bible's most infamous stories. But were they really supposed to stay there? Let's find out.
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Freddie Mercury famously threw over-the-top parties. This is what it was really like to attend one of his outrageous parties.
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Dolly Parton has conquered just about every entertainment medium in existence. Despite that success, the superstar still counts one venture as a disappointment.
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It's not easy to escape the Hells Angels, let alone when you were a member as high-ranking as Dave Atwell. But that's exactly what Atwell did.
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David Bowie is a legend in so many different senses of the word, a superstar who transcended mediums, gender roles, and personas.
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Many of the characters, spells, and magical creatures in Harry Potter are inspired by old myths and folktales, and McGonagall is no exception.
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Signs of Walker's disobedient lifestyle were visible early. As a kid in Scranton, Walker was caught during a burglary and told to choose jail or the Navy.
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While much of what happens involving mandrakes in Harry Potter is purely fictional, the shrieking mandrakes of Hogwarts have their roots in a very real plant.
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Francisca Ballesteros was born in Valencia, Spain in 1969. By the time she was arrested in 2004, she had become known as the Black Widow of Valencia.
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Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher first met on the set of "Saturday Night Live" in November 1978, and their relationship would continue to blossom over the years.
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Chelsea Manning first joined the U.S. military in 2007, but in 2010, while stationed in Iraq, she discovered information that she found troubling.
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If you've ever tried to find a hint of positivity and light in a fog of malaise or misfortune, perhaps you've heard the phrase "silver linings."
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On August 18, 1227, infamous Mongol emperor Genghis Khan died in an army camp during an onslaught on the Chinese kingdom Xi Xia.
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When Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito embarked on a whirlwind romance in Italy, neither had any idea that their lives would soon change forever.
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Virginia Hill was born one of 10 children in a burned-out boomtown in rural Alabama but died in Austria as an infamous mobster.
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The ordinary and extraordinary women of the Bible are many things — villains, virgins, witches, saints, and everything in between.
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As one of the most foreboding and inhospitable places on the planet, the North Pole has always symbolized a distant and alluring challenge.