The Raven's Heart

Jesse Blackadder was an Australian author, screenwriter, public speaker, and journalist. She was born in June 1964. She earned a BA in Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. She has a Master of applied Science in Social Ecology and a Doctor of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University.

She is best known for her adult fiction, After the Party, The Raven's Heart, Chasing the Light, In the Blink of an Eye (published as, Sixty Seconds, in Australia). Her novels for children include, Stay The Last Dog in Antarctica, Paruka The Desert Brumby, and Dexter The Courageous Koala. She was the co-writer, along with Laura Bloom, of Dream Riders Book one: Frankie and Dream Riders Book two: Storm. Her novel, The Raven's Heart, won the Benjamin Franklin House annual literary prize and the Golden Crown Literary Society awards in 2013.

She won the Guy Morrison Prize for Literary Journalism for her essay, The First Woman and the Last Dog in Antarctica. Her work has been published in Australia Geographic, Womankind, Outback, Wellbeing, Goodreading, and other journals.

She died on June 10, 2020 in New South Wales at the age of 58.

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