Sheila Cussons (9 August 1922 – 25 November 2004) was an Afrikaans poet.
She was born on the Moravia missionary station near Piketberg, South Africa, and, after matriculating from Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool, studied fine arts at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg.
She was one of the most important poets in Afrikaans, besides an accomplished painter and artist.
Opperman was influential in her decision to write in Afrikaans, while N. P. van Wyk Louw maintained prolonged correspondence with her, which they both considered as beneficial to their work.
[citation needed] She died in 2004 at the age of 82, at Nazareth House, a Catholic institution in Vredehoek.