Ruth Fowler is a British-born Los Angeles and London 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. As well as The Village Voice, she has written for The Guardian, The Observer, Wired Magazine, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, The Fix 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. In 2008 Ruth wrote the screenplay for the short film Supraman and the School of Necessity. 

March 28th, 1979 in (Age 45)