Hazel Buchan Cameron was born and raised in Renfrewshire. At eighteen she moved to Perthshire where she brought up her family and worked as a farm secretary. She now lives in Grantown-on-Spey.
Hazel administered the Scottish Pamphlet Poetry website for 10 years, and was the first Writer in Residence for the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. She is the author of five poetry pamphlets, including The Currying Shop (2007), which was joint winner of the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2008. Red Squirrel Press published her collections Finding IKEA (2010) and Cutting Letters (2016).
Hazel performed with the female poetry collective Lippy Bissom and her stories have appeared on BBC Radio Scotland. Her book of transcriptions from unpublished Scottish stories by Isobel Wylie Hutchison will be published by Taproot Press in 2022.