Clover Hope

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. She was raised in both Brooklyn and Queens.

Hope graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a bachelor's degree in journalism. She went on to work at XXL for three years and then moved on to be senior editor at Vibe. Her work has also appeared in outlets including The Village Voice, ESPN, GQ, and Harper's Bazaar.

Beyoncé's featured September 2018 Vogue editorial included an as-told-to interview with Hope. The writer again collaborated with Beyoncé as a co-writer on Black Is King (2020).

Other work She is a co-executive producer for Black Renaissance, a Black arts and culture YouTube Originals special that premiered February 26, 2021.

Hope is an adjunct professor at New York University. 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.