Clover Hope is a Guyanese-American music journalist. She was previously an editor at Billboard, XXL, and Jezebel. She is a contributing editor for Pitchfork as of 2020. Hope's debut book The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop was released in 2021.[1]
Hope graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.[2]
Career
Journalism
Hope's first job in journalism after college began in 2005 as an online editor at Billboard.[5] She went on to work at XXL for three years and then moved on to be senior editor at Vibe.[2] She was hired as a staff writer for Jezebel in 2014 and left in 2020.[6][7] Her work has also appeared in outlets including The Village Voice, ESPN, GQ, and Harper's Bazaar.[1][2] She has been a contributing editor at Pitchfork since 2020.[1]
Beyoncé's featured September 2018 Vogue editorial included an as-told-to interview with Hope.[8] The writer again collaborated with Beyoncé as a co-writer on Black Is King (2020).[9]
Other work
She is a co-executive producer for Black Renaissance, a Black arts and culture YouTube Originals special that premiered February 26, 2021.[10]
Her debut book The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop was released in 2021.[11] The book profiles iconic women in hip-hop like Roxanne Shanté and Nicki Minaj and provides historical context as well as the perspectives of the featured artists.[3]