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Jill Blocker

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Jill Blocker is an author and former journalist, whose work has been featured across international media outlets.

She is the author of “What was Beautiful and Good,” (“Was schön war und gut”), and her work has been featured on The Daily Show, and in The Washington Post, The Star Press, The Guardian, the Seattle-PI, KOMO 4 News, MAINTENANT : A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, and others.

Originally from the U.S., she considers herself a citizen of the world.

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What was Beautiful and Good: A novel about the origins of the Dada art movement

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