Susan Deer Cloud

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer, Poet

Livingston Manor, NY
New York US
Email: 
susan.poetrymatters@gmail.com
Website: 
sites.google.com/site/susandeerc…

Author's Bio

I am a mixed lineage Catskill Mountain Native who has traveled to and sojourned in many places. I have a B.A. & M.A. in Literature/Creative Writing from Binghamton University and an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Goddard College. I have taught literature and creative writing at the college level.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Journal:
Red Rock Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Poetry of Resistance Voices for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press, 2016)
,
The Border Crossed Us (Vagabond Press, 2015)
,
Adrienne Rich Tribute Anthology (Split Oak Press, 2012)
,
City of the Big Shoulders: an Anthology of Chicago Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2012)
,
Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002)
,
Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to be American (Penguin, 1999)
,
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (Penguin, 1994)
Books:
Before Language (Shabda Press, 2016)
,
Hunger Moon (Shabda Press, 2014)
,
Fox Mountain (Foothills Publishing, 2013)
,
I Was Indian Before Being Indian Was Cool, I & II (Foothills Publishing, 2012)
,
Braiding Starlight (Split Oak Press, 2010)
,
Car Stealer (Foothills Publishing, 2009)
,
The Last Ceremony (Foothills Publishing, 2007)
Chapbook:
The Broken Hoop (Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1988)
Journals:
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
,
Cape Cod Poetry Review
,
Chiron Review
,
CounterPunch
,
Earth's Daughters
,
Exquisite Corpse
,
Florida Review
,
Many Mountains Moving
,
Mid-American Review
,
Nimrod
,
North Dakota Quarterly
,
Paterson Literary Review
,
Pitkin Review
,
Poet Lore
,
Prairie Schooner
,
Rosebud
,
Sentence
,
Shenandoah
,
Stone Canoe
,
The Mas Tequila Review
,
The Talking Stick
,
To Topos
,
Yellow Medicine Review
Prizes won: 

I have been awarded various prizes, fellowships and awards,including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, 2 New York State Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Individual Artist's Grant, Allen Ginsberg 1st Prize in Poetry (twice)& Prairie Schooner's Readers' Choice Prize in Poetry ...

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx, Patagonia by Bruce Chatwood, Habitation by Sam Hamill

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Livingston Manor, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Livingston Manor, NY
New York
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Last update: Apr 04, 2019