Grace Dent

Grace Dent (born 3 October 1973) is an English columnist, broadcaster and author. She is a restaurant critic for The Guardian and from 2011 to 2017 wrote a restaurant column for the Evening Standard. She is a regular critic on the BBC's MasterChef UK and has appeared on Channel 4's television series Very British Problems. Dent has written 11 novels for teenagers, and her first non-fiction title How to Leave Twitter was published in July 2011. Early life Dent was born in Carlisle, Cumberland. She attended Bishop Harvey Goodwin Primary School in Currock, Carlisle, and studied English Literature at University of Stirling. While at university, she wrote features for Cosmopolitan after winning a place on their Student Advisory panel. Journalism After graduation from Stirling University, Dent's first job was editorial assistant for Marie Claire magazine in London.