She writes primarily about Appalachia, class, and climate change.
[1][2] Her debut collection, F*ckface, was named a Best Book of 2020 by Slate, Electric Literature, and PopMatters.
[3] She is currently the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing Fellow in Residence at the University of Idaho’s Confluence Lab.
[4] Hampton was primarily raised in Western North Carolina.
[2] She was awarded the Philip Roth Residency at the Stadler Center for Poetry in the spring of 2020[6] She graduated with her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature.