Susan Deer Cloud (born October 20, 1950) is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and creative essays.
Deer Cloud, born to Joseph R. Hauptfleisch and Dorothea Mae Lare in Livingston Manor, New York, grew up in the Borscht Belt.
She works as a full-time writer who gives poetry readings, talks and workshops at colleges and other venues.
[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.