Jackie Dent

Jackie Dent is an author and journalist. Her most recent book is The Great Dead Body Teachers.

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Jackie Dent

Jackie Dent is an author and journalist. She has worked for multiple media outlets, including the ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald, Monocle, The Guardian, The New York Times, Reuters, and others. Her career has included stints with the United Nations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Sudan and North Ossetia. She curated public talks for the Ethics Centre and Clear Spot Club, and her experimental journalism was included in Critical Practices Inc’s LEF(t) publication in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Her most recent book, The Great Dead Body Teachers, is about whole-body donation and anatomy, and she is currently completing a PhD in International Relations at the University of Sydney on ‘The Pleasures of War’.

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