Written as "Emily Doe", her victim impact statement, in the sexual assault trial of then Stanford University student Brock Turner, went viral.
She has now revealed her identity as 27-year-old Chanel Miller, a writer and artist from California, as she prepares to have her memoir published.
The case sparked controversy when Turner was sentenced to six months in jail. He served three.
Ms Miller's book, Know My Name, is being released later this month.
The memoir's publisher said it would "change the way we think about sexual assault forever".
'You don't know me, but you've been inside me'
Ms Miller, a literature graduate, was known by the pseudonym Emily Doe during the trial of Turner, a former star swimmer from Ohio, in San Jose, California, for the 2015 assault.
He had attacked her while she was unconscious on the ground outside a university fraternity house party. Two Swedish students, cycling past, challenged Turner when they realised Ms Miller, who was found partly dressed near a dumpster, was not moving.
In 2016, a jury would find Turner - then 20 - guilty of three charges: sexually assaulting an intoxicated victim, sexually assaulting an unconscious victim and attempting to rape her. He was sentenced to six months and three years' probation. Prosecutors had sought a six-year sentence.
The trial sparked a national debate about sexual assault and whether white men from wealthy backgrounds were treated more favourably by the US justice system.
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At Turner's sentencing, Ms Miller addressed him directly with her statement, beginning with the words: "You don't know me, but you've been inside me, and that's why we're here today."
The full statement was later published by Buzzfeed, garnering 11 million views in four days. Translated into different languages, it spread across the world, and was the subject of public readings, including being read on the floor of Congress.
In it, Ms Miller said she only learned the full horror of what happened when reading the news on her phone.
She wrote: "At the bottom of the article, after I learned about the graphic details of my own sexual assault, the article listed his swimming times. She was found breathing, unresponsive with her underwear six inches away from her bare stomach curled in foetal position.
"By the way, he's really good at swimming."
During the trial, she set out in the statement, she faced a barrage of questions: "What were you wearing?", "Why were you going to this party?', "Did you party at frats?", "Are you serious with your boyfriend?"
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Brock Turner's case garnered notoriety in 2016 when Ms Miller's statement went viral
She would later receive letters from women from across the world, saying she had given them courage to reveal their own stories of sexual assault for the first time.
While writing Know My Name, published on 24 September by Viking, she found out further details of her own case, through court documents and witness statements she had not had access to during the trial.
The case happened before the #MeToo movement, but Ms Miller - who started writing her book in 2017 - added to her memoir and expanded its scope as the spotlight was shone on sexual violence.
Venetia Butterfield, publisher at Penguin General, said: "It is an immense privilege to share Chanel Miller's honest, eloquent and emotional story with readers. Here is a book that will change the way we think about sexual assault forever."
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Aaron Persky, the judge in the case, was criticised for being too lenient with his sentencing of Turner and was removed from office by voters last year after a recall campaign. During the case, he had expressed concern about how going to prison would affect Turner.
As well as having an impact on the recall campaign, Ms Miller's statement also inspired changes in California state law on sexual assault.
Last year, Turner had an attempt to have his felonies overturned rejected. He will remain on the sex offenders register.
she was also out of college at that time and never went to stanford. she was literally trespassing on stanford's campus, preying on younger men while she cucked her BF
Date: September 4th, 2019 1:47 PM Author: angry national
TCQ. People here are natural contrarians, which is fine, but some have become so deranged that they follow that contrarian instinct to toxic extremes like.... defending a guy who sexually assaulted a passed out girl behind a dumpster, really???
Date: September 4th, 2019 1:51 PM Author: arrogant mustard puppy
serious Q. should the rest of her life be defined by maybe getting fingerbanged while passed out? is it really so life shattering? does she really need to write an entire book about it?
Date: September 4th, 2019 2:00 PM Author: Clear Parlor
yes, being able to cash in on a drunken sex act I did with a college athlete years later for six figs for a book that no sane person would ever read would be a nice option to have.
Date: September 4th, 2019 1:51 PM Author: violent lay boistinker
Yes, what I wouldn't give to be disgraced as a "rapist," effectively unemployable, unfriendable, and unmarriable, and living in Ohio working light manufacturing.
Date: September 4th, 2019 1:52 PM Author: violent lay boistinker
The local media coverage of it was disgusting. He was the "rape judge," etc. Coverage was 100% negative, and I don't think that's an exaggeration. The media are scum.
Date: September 4th, 2019 2:09 PM Author: Puce Bat Shit Crazy Cuckoldry Juggernaut
“She has now revealed her identity as 27-year-old Chanel Miller, a writer and artist from California, as she prepares to have her memoir published.”
Why the fuck would anyone want to read this woman’s memoirs? She has not actually accomplished anything of note other than getting black out drunk and being molested.
Date: September 4th, 2019 2:25 PM Author: Heritage American Finn
cuz he was an autistic 19 year old college freshman (!) dork who was just trying to awkwardly hook up at a college party for his first time like everyone else
only to end up with an equally dorky 23 year old grad student (??? why was this girl at an undergrad party with freshmen?) who he started consensually hooking up with before she passed out, and he probably just kept going because he was so drunk he didn't realize wtf was going on
at best case you're looking at a 19 year old freshman kid getting taken advantage of by a grad student who cant get guys her own age to fuck her, but then the 19 year old kid is the one who gets charged as a "sex offender" for consensually hooking up with a girl who was in college when he was in 8th grade
Date: September 4th, 2019 2:38 PM Author: Heritage American Finn
no they were both blackout drunk and stumbling around together trying to drunkenly figure out where they could hook up. just like every other degenerate drunken college hookup that happens every weekend
it was a complete non-event that turned into yet another psychopathic shitlib witch-hunt where some random ass guy got his life ruined because some girl's "father" did a pathetic job raising her
Date: September 4th, 2019 4:01 PM Author: Concupiscible mexican
The other week I found myself being abnormally upset by you. Since then I've thought a lot about the pain you must be in in your own life and so for the past week I've been praying for you. Every night I ask God to help you and Henry Aaron find peace and compassion and fulfillment. I do this mostly to help myself, but if this prayer thing really works then I hope that you've had a great week and I'll continue to pray for you.