Susan Deer Cloud
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Susan Deer Cloud (b.October 20, 1950) is a Métis poet and fiction writer of Blackfoot, Seneca and Mohawk heritage.
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Biography
She was born to Joseph R. Hauptfleisch and Dorothea Mae Lare in Livingston Manor, NY, and grew up in the Catskills. She received her B.A. in General Literature and Creative Writing (summa cum laude) and her M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Binghamton University. She is currently enrolled in the MFA Program for Fiction writing at UMass-Amherst.
Work and achievements
Deer Cloud resided in Binghamton, NY, for twenty four years after receiving her Master’s Degree. During that time she traveled widely and at times lived abroad. She has taught Creative Writing at her alma mater, ranging from introductory poetry and fiction courses to upper level poetry courses. Deer Cloud has had poems, fiction, and non-fiction appear in numerous magazines and literary journals, including Rosebud, Identity Theory, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, North Dakota Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Earth’s Daughters, Shenandoah, Ms., Pembroke Magazine, Quarterly West, To Topos, Chiron Review, Croton Review and The Greensboro Review. Her poems and stories have appeared in several anthologies, among them the multicultural anthologies Unsettling America and Identity Lessons and Native anthologies A Nation Within and Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community. She has received Prairie Schooner’s Readers’ Choice Award and has twice been given First Prize in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition. She has done a guest editorship at Sojourner: The Women’s Forum. She founded Binghamton’s Underground Poets, Wild Indians & Exuberant Others, Unc. (Unincorporated), and edited an anthology to accompany Underground readings she hosted in the city of Binghamton. Deer Cloud is the recipient of a New York State Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Grant, and most recently a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature (Poetry). It should be noted that previously she had work published under former married name of Susan Clements.
Books by Susan Deer Cloud
- The Last Ceremony. Foothills Press, 2006.
- Confluence. Anthology, edited by Deer Cloud. Foothills Press. 2006.
- In The Moon When The Deer Lose Their Horns. Chantry Press, Midland, NJ. 1993.
- The Broken Hoop. Blue Cloud Press, Marvin, SD. 1988.
Fellowships and Honors
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 2007.
- Scholarship to The Resilience of the HUMAN SPIRIT, an International Gathering of
Poets, September 16-17, 2006.
- Chenango County Council for the Arts Individual Artists Grant. 2005.
