Magdalena Ball Magdalena Ball i(A65133 works by)
Also writes as: Maggie Ball
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Born in New York City, Magdalena Ball obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from City University of New York (CCNY), before moving to Oxford to study literature on a postgraduate level at Oxford University.

After briefly returning to the US, she migrated to Australia, where she still lives, and studied for an MBA from Charles Sturt University (Wagga, New South Wales)

Her short stories, reviews, articles and poetry have been published both in Australia and internationally. She has published three collections of poetry (Unmaking Atoms, Repulsion Thrust, and Quark Soup) and two novels (Sleep Before Evening and Black Cow). Ball runs the review website The Compulsive Reader.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2025 finalist The Joanne Burns Award Hunter category
2023 finalist The Joanne Burns Award
2023 shortlisted Red Room Poetry Fellowship

Awards for Works

Cartouche i "it’s royal this gift, the heart of explosion in the middle of winter", 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Literary Nillumbik: Ekphrasis Anthology of Writing 2018 2018; (p. 32-33)
2018 highly commended Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award Open
Anneslea Fragrans i "First there is touch", 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 16-17)
2016 highly commended New Shoots Poetry Prize
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