Susan McCabe (born in Los Angeles) is an American poet and scholar.
She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature program at the University of Southern California.
McCabe's first book, Elizabeth Bishop, Her Poetics of Loss (Penn State Press, 1994), was called by poet Donald Revell "the first book to present Bishop's poetry as a successful entirety, a coherent, humane, and progressive enterprise".
She has written many articles on the topics of Hitchcock, Stein, and other 20th century figures or cultural movements.
She won the Agha Shahid Ali Award for Descartes' Nightmare in 2007, selected by Cole Swensen, and published by Utalh University Press in 2008.