Leah Hampton (September 21, 1973) is a writer. She writes primarily about Appalachia, class, and climate change.[1][2] Her debut collection, F*ckface, was named a Best Book of 2020 by Slate, Electric Literature, and PopMatters.[3] She is currently the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing Fellow in Residence at the University of Idaho’s Confluence Lab.[4]
Hampton was primarily raised in Western North Carolina.[5] She holds dual US/UK citizenship.[2]
She was awarded the Philip Roth Residency at the Stadler Center for Poetry in the spring of 2020[6]
She graduated with her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature.[7] She has also won regional prizes, including the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and the James Hurst Prize for Fiction which are both for writers who are living in or are from North Carolina.[8][9]