Susan Hampton was born in Inverell. She has a diploma from the Newcastle Teacher's College and a BA from Sydney University. Having worked as a teacher she is currently an editor and has worked on books such as Stravinsky's Lunch, Gilgamesh, and The Poison Principle. Six volumes of her poetry and short stories have been published.

Hampton has been the poetry editor for The Canberra Times and edited the anthology Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets. Her collection, The Kindly Ones, was short listed for the 2006 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.

Poetry

• Ten Poems (Australian Council of Trade Unions, 1980) ISBN 0909791090
• Costumes: poems and prose. (Transit New Poetry, 1981)
• White Dog Sonnets: A novel. (Sydney: Fab, 1987) ISBN 0958783101
• A Latin Primer. (Cerberus, 1998)ISBN 0958729328
• The Kindly Ones (Five Islands, 2005) ISBN 1-74128-093-1 reviews: [1] [2] [3]
• The Tall Women.
• Rogue Songs.

Short fiction

• Surly Girls. (Collins, 1990) ISBN 0732225124

Edited

• Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets. With Kate Llewellyn (Penguin, 1986) ISBN 0140585753 review