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Susan Deer Cloud (born October 20, 1950) is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and creative essays. Previously she had work published under a former married name ofSusan Clements.
Deer Cloud, born to Joseph R. Hauptfleisch and Dorothea Mae Lare inLivingston Manor, New York, grew up in theBorscht Belt. She received her B.A. in General Literature and Creative Writing (summa cum laude) and M.A. inEnglish Literature andCreative Writing fromBinghamton University. She has an MFA in creative writing fromGoddard College.
Deer Cloud resides in theCatskill Mountains. She has taught Creative Writing atBinghamton University, ranging from introductory poetry and fiction courses to upper level poetry courses, as well as Composition atBroome Community College. She works as a full-time writer who gives poetry readings, talks and workshops at colleges and other venues.
Deer Cloud is the recipient of two New York State Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Grant, and aNational Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature (Poetry).[1]
She has received Prairie Schooner's Readers’ Choice Award and has twice been given First Prize in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition. She founded and hosted readings and performances with a group of writers, artists and musicians called Binghamton's Underground Poets, Wild Indians & Exuberant Others, Unc. (Unincorporated), and edited a multicultural anthologyConfluence containing work by Underground participants. She is also editor of the ongoing Re-Matriation Series of Indigenous Poetry for FootHills Publishing.
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