Susie Isabel Lankford Shorter (January 4, 1859 – February 23, 1912) was an American educator, philanthropist, and writer.

Her booklet "Heroines of African Methodism" (1891) was written to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Bishop Daniel Payne.

[5] She wrote the song, "Lifting as We Climb",[6] for the Ohio chapter of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.

[7] Susie Isabel Lankford married Joseph Proctor Shorter, a professor at Wilberforce University, in 1878.

Susie Lankford Shorter was widowed in 1910 and died in 1912, aged 53 years.