Hazel Buchan Cameron was born and brought up in Renfrewshire and lived in Perthshire for over 25 years, where she worked as a farm secretary before moving to North Yorkshire. She administers the Scottish Pamphlet Poetry website and performs her poems with Lippy Bissoms.

She has published four poetry pamphlets including The Currying Shop (Imago, 2007), which was joint winner of the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2008, and Finding IKEA (Red Squirrell, 2011).