Susan Stewart (born March 15, 1952) is an American poet and literary critic.

She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University.

In the late 2000s she collaborated with composer James Primosch on a song cycle commissioned by the Chicago Symphony that premiered in the fall of 2009.

She has served on the judging panel of the Wallace Stevens Award on six occasions.

[5] About her work, the poet and critic Allen Grossman has written, Stewart has built a poetic syntax capable of conveying an utterly singular account of consciousness, by the light of which it is possible to see the structure of the human world with a new clarity and an unforeseen precision, possible only in her presence and by means of her art.