Brook Busey (born June 14, 1978), better known by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American Academy Award & BAFTA-winning screenwriter, writer, blogger, journalist and author. First known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her Pussy Ranch blog and her 2006 memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, Cody won wider fame as the writer of the 2007 film Juno, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Cody wrote a horror-drama screenplay about a teenage cannibal called Jennifer's Body during the filming, and promotion, of Juno. Actress Megan Fox signed on to play the leading role, Jennifer. Jennifer's Body was filmed from 2007 - 2008 and is set for a 2008 - 2009 release.

A sitcom written by Cody, called The United States of Tara, based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, has been picked up for 13 episodes (including pilot) by the cable TV network Showtime.

Early life and career

Cody, who took the pen name Diablo Cody (diablo is Spanish for "devil") during a trip to Cody, Wyoming, attended Benet Academy, a Roman Catholic school in Lisle, Illinois. She grew up in Lemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a media studies degree. While at the University of Iowa, Cody was a DJ at KRUI 89.7 FM. Her first jobs were doing secretarial work at a Chicago law firm and later proofreading copy for advertisements that played on Twin Cities radio stations.

Cody began a parody of a weblog called Red Secretary, detailing the (fictional) exploits of a secretary living in Belarus. The events were thinly-veiled allegories for events that happened in Cody's real life, but told from the perspective of a disgruntled, English-idiom-challenged Eastern Bloc girl.

Cody's first bona fide blog appeared under the nickname Darling Girl after Cody had moved from Chicago to Minneapolis, Minnesota to "live in sin" with Jon (Jonny) Hunt, a musician she had met over the Internet. They married in October 2004, but separated in late 2007. On December 5, 2007, Cody announced in her "Pussy Ranch" blog that they are now divorced; Hunt wrote that they nonetheless remain friends. Cody currently resides in Los Angeles.

Stripping and journalism

On a whim, Cody signed up for amateur night at a Minneapolis strip club called the Skyway Lounge. Enjoying the experience, she eventually quit her day job and took up stripping full-time. Cody also spent time working peep shows at Sex World, a Minneapolis adult novelty and DVD store. Cody soon made a retreat to journalism, and a budding writing career stimulated by her skin trade days.