Career
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 Foreign Creative Non Fiction.
Her first book, Number Manitoba"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.
According to her agent, Ruth is currently writing her second book, and working on an adaptation of the award winning ‘A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian’ for Ruby Films and the British Broadcasting Corporation. She recently completed ‘Sparkleponies’ - a feature film for Film 4, and ‘Boy2Girl’ with Kindle Entertainment. ‘Girl Undressed’ has been optioned as a television series by British Broadcasting Corporation America and Big Talk productions.
In 2011, Ruth was selected as one of 12 writers taking part in a Channel 4 Screenwriting Workshop, working with a script-editor on an original pilot for a television series or serial.
Earlier this year, Ruth"s original political screenplay "Fly Maine" ensured that Ruth was selected as a Screen International Stars of Tomorrow 2012, alongside previous winners Emily Blunt, Carey Mulligan, Robert Pattison and Andrew Garfield. Fowler is married to the photographer Jared Iorio, and lives in Venice, California. Fowler is a staunch believer in universal free education.