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Ruth Fowler (born 28 March 1979) is a British-born Los Angeles based author, screenwriter and journalist, who first came to media attention after writing several articles for The Village Voice as "Mimi".

Fowler holds a first-class Honors Bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Master's degree in American literature from King's College, Cambridge. After graduating Cambridge, Fowler traveled to over fifty different countries working as a chef, a sailor, a bar-tender, a supermarket checkout girl and a waitress before finding herself in New York City in 2005. While attempting to obtain a work visa she worked as a stripper in Manhattan, writing about her experiences on her blog [1].

As well as The Village Voice, she has written for The Guardian, The Observer, Wired Magazine, The New York Post, The Huffington Post and The Norton Anthology For Creative Non Fiction. Her first book, No Man's Land, was published by Viking Penguin in June 2008, and was republished in May 2009 as Girl Undressed [2].

According to her website, Ruth is currently writing her second book, and working on an adaptation of ‘Exes Anonymous’ for Tim Perell and Bart Freundlich. She recently completed ‘Alice in Wonderland’ for director Rachel Talalay and is developing ‘Boy2Girl’ with Kindle Entertainment. ‘Girl Undressed’ has been optioned as a TV series by BBC America and Big Talk productions.

In 2008 Ruth wrote the screenplay for the short film 'Supraman and the School of Necessity' [3].

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