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==Early life==
Starhawk was born in 1951 in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]]. Her father, Jack Simos, died when she was five. Her mother, Bertha Claire Goldfarb Simos, was a professor of [[social work]] at [[UCLA]]. Both of her parents were the children of [[Jewish]] immigrants from Ukraine.

During [[high school]], she and feminist [[Christina Hoff Sommers]] were best friends.<ref>{{YouTube|id=1KrA4BQ6rAY&t=14m37s}}</ref> Starhawk received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in Fine Arts from UCLA. In 1973, whilst a graduate student in [[film]] there, she won the [[Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards|Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award]] for her novel, ''A Weight of Gold'', a story about [[Venice, California]], where she then lived. She received an MA in [[Psychology]], with a concentration in feminist therapy, from [[Antioch University West]] in 1982.