Event Description
Susan Deer Cloud is a Catskill Native of Mohawk/Seneca/Blackfoot lineage. She has received various awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Literature Grant, First Prize in Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition (twice), Prairie Schooner’s Readers’ Choice Award, and Native American Wordcraft Circle Editor’s Award for her multicultural anthology Confluence. Most recently her poems “Car Stealer” and “Ode to O Holy Nights in Liberty, NY” were finalist and semi-finalist in Many Mountains Moving Poetry Competition (“Car Stealer” will be included in next MMM issue).
Deer Cloud’s poems and stories have been published in numerous journals and anthologies (Sister Nations: an Anthology of Native Women Writerson Community,Unsettling America & Identity Lessons multiculturalanthologies, American Indian Culture & Research Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, To Topos (Poetry International), Mid-American Review, Ms. Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Many Mountains Moving, North Dakota Quarterly, Quarterly West, Earth’s Daughters, Shenandoah, Blood Lotus, Exquisite Corpse, Pembroke Magazine, Stone Canoe, Paterson Literary Review, Helicon Nine,etc.).
Her most recent books are The Last Ceremony and Car Stealer (FootHills Publishing) Deer Cloud has edited two anthologies (multicultural Confluence and Native anthology, I Was Indian), plus the 2008 Spring Issue of Yellow Medicine, a Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought. Currently she is working on an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College while also teaching at Broome Community College.
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