Caroline Ryder (born, November 12, 1980) is a writer, based in Los Angeles, California, known for her work with '' LA Weekly'', ''

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'' magazine and the ''

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'' and for co-authoring '' Dirty Rocker Boys'', named among the "50 greatest rock memoirs of all time" by Rolling Stone magazine.

Journalism

Born to an Irish father and Brazilian mother in

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, Spain, she was raised in London, England and educated at

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in Elstree. She graduated from the

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, working at

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and

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before moving to Los Angeles in 2005. After meeting street artist

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at a nightclub in Hollywood, she became an editor for his magazine Swindle, interviewing members of the IRA for a cover article on pro-terrorism murals, as well as Black Panther

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, actress

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, porn publisher

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, singer

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and Larry Clark. Known for her coverage of the LA indie music and fashion scenes, she became one of the '' LA Weekly'' 's first fashion bloggers. In 2007, she was hired by the ''Los Angeles Times'' to act as style editor of their youth culture portal,

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. She was named style editor of ''

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'' until being laid off in 2008. In 2010,

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granted Ryder their first print interview, which was published in the ''LA Weekly''. In 2012, she became a columnist for KCET's Artbound. In 2015, she conducted the first solo interview with

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for ''Dazed'' magazine.

Books

*Co-author of the 2015

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biography ''Let There Be Gwar''. *Co-authored the Sunset Strip memoir ''Dirty Rocker Boys'' and, "Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F*ck," alongside Bobbie Brown. *Co-author of ''Kicking Up Dirt'' with

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champion Ashley Fiolek.

Film

In 2013, it was announced that Sony Films was developing an adaptation of ''Kicking Up Dirt''. Her feature script ''Mimi and Ulrich'', written under the mentorship of Mary Sweeney and

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, was shortlisted for the 2015 Sundance Screenwriting Lab. She is a graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts, where she gained her MFA in Writing for Screen and Television.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ryder, Caroline Alumni of the London School of Economics People educated at Haberdashers' Girls' School Living people English writers Writers from Los Angeles Writers from London USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni 1980 births