Michelle Ruiz
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Michelle Ruiz is a frequent Vanity Fair contributor who has authored viral cover stories on Gisele Bündchen, Bad Bunny, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s complicated rift from the British royal family. She is a contributing culture editor at Vogue and a veteran freelance journalist and features reporter for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York and others.
Ruiz possesses a keen eye for covering emergent social trends, from the rise of divorce parties for The Cut to middle-aged women multiply piercing their ears to awaken their dead souls for the WSJ. Her profile subjects have included First Lady Jill Biden, Anita Hill, Alanis Morisette, Julianne Moore, Issa Rae, Kirsten Dunst, and Paris Hilton. She’s currently completing a novel inspired by the British royal family saga and is developing a feature on the rise of consensual non-monogamy for television. Ruiz is a former sex and relationships editor at Cosmopolitan and senior editor at ABC News, where she began her professional career as a breaking news writer in 2004. She graduated from the University of Virginia. You can find her posting sporadically about books, Broadway, and the validity of romance novels on Twitter and Instagram.
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