Magdalena Ball was born in New York studied in England and now lives in Australia, where she runs the well respected review site “The Compulsive Reader”

 Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals, and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction. She is the author of the poetry books Repulsion Thrust and Quark Soup, the novels Black Cow, and Sleep Before Evening, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment.