Susan Hawthorne (born 30 November 1951) is an Australian writer, poet, political commentator and publisher.
[1] Together with Renate Klein, she is co-founder and director of Spinifex Press,[2] a leading independent feminist publisher that celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2016 in Melbourne with a festival of radical feminism.
She is the English language co-ordinator of The International Alliance of Independent Publishers (based in Paris).
[13] Hawthorne has been the recipient of two international residencies: in 2013 from the Australia Council for the Arts for six months to write Lupa and Lamb in Rome and in 2009 a four-month residency for Arts Queensland and the Australia Council to Chennai, India to write Cow.
[14] Hawthorne's work has been published in Australia and internationally in anthologies and literary magazines, in the annual Best Australian Poems (three times) and broadcast on Radio National's Poetica.