Born in 1949 in Daylesford, in the Australian State of Victoria, Vicki Raymond spent most of her first thirty years in Tasmania, where she completed her education and worked at the University of Tasmania, Hibart. Since 1981 she has lived in London where she works as a finance clerk at Australia House. She is married to John Irwin. Her first book Joliday Girls and Other Poems, won the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize for a first volume in 1986. Her second, Small Arm Practice was published by William Heinemann Australia in 1989. Several of her poems have been set to music by the composer Patrick Morris.

Carcanet published her Selected Poems in 1993.