Susan Polis Schutz

Susan Polis Schutz (born May 23, 1944) is an American poet and producer of greeting cards.

Life
She was born Susan Polis in Peekskill, New York, the daughter of June (Keller) and David Polis. Her grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.

Schutz and Blue Mountain Arts came to wider attention with the founding, in 1996, of the bluemountain.com website. One of the earliest experiments with the electronic greeting card medium, the site was widely adopted by web users. In 1999, the dot-com venture Excite@Home bought bluemountain.com in a deal valued at $780 million.

The 1999 price paid for bluemountain.com became an example of what was later seen as the excesses of the dot-com boom: the website was sold again in 2001, to the firm American Greetings, for just $35 million in cash.

Schutz is the executive producer and director of the documentary film Anyone and Everyone. The film featured the coming-out stories of gay sons and daughters and their parents and premiered on KPBS public television in San Diego, California in August 2007 before being scheduled to air on a number of other public television stations in the United States.

She is the mother of U.S. Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado.