Penn Kemp's father was an advertising and publicity executive at London Life, painter, and war artist.
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Penn Kemp says she wrote her first poem when she was six years old.
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Penn Kemp earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and literature from the University of Western Ontario in 1966 and received certification as a teacher in 1968.
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Penn Kemp taught high school English in Timmins and North York, Toronto for several years.
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In 1984, Penn Kemp was writer in residence for Niagara Erie Writers in New York State; for the Labrador School Board in 1986; for Flesherton Library in 1988 and '89; and at SNDT Women's University in Mumbai in 1995.
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Penn Kemp was London's inaugural Poet Laureate, serving from 2010 to 2013 and University of Western Ontario's Writer-in-Residence.
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In 2021, Penn Kemp was commissioned by Brescia University College to deliver their inaugural Women's Day Poem.
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Penn Kemp returned in 2001 and her mother had a stroke.
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In 2012, Penn Kemp was awarded the League of Canadian Poets' Life Membership Award.
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Penn Kemp received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 for her service to the arts.