Eddie Chuculate

Eddie Chuculate is an American fiction writer of Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee descent.^[1] His first book, Cheyenne Madonna, was published in July 2010 by Black Sparrow Books,^[2] an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher, in Boston. Chuculate won a PEN/O. Henry Award in 2007 for his story, "Galveston Bay, 1826." Chuculate's stories have appeared in Manoa, Ploughshares,^[3] the Iowa Review, Blue Mesa Review, Many Mountains Moving and The Kenyon Review.^[4] He is an editor for the Trillium Literary Journal.^[5] In the July/Aug. 2010 edition of World Literature Today, Chuculate was featured as the journal's "Emerging Author."^[6]

Background

Chuculate was born in Claremore, Oklahoma, in 1966, but grew up primarily in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He worked as a newspaper sports writer for nine years and a copy editor for ten. He later earned a degree in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in creative writing (fiction) at Stanford University.^[7] In 2010 he was admitted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.^[4]

Cheyenne Madonna, July 2010, Black Sparrow Books/David R. Godine, Publisher, in Boston.

^ Craig S. Womack, Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, p.1
^ Cheyenne Madonna. Black Sparrow Books . Retrieved 6 July 2010.
^ "Doug Anderson." Ploughshares. . Retrieved 6 July 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Author Spotlight", The Pen/O. Henry Prizes, Random House. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
^ Editors, Trillium Literary Journal, trilliumliteraryjournal.org. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
^ Google cache.
^ "Stegner Fellowship." Stanford University News.

Persondata
Name	Eddie Chuculate
Alternative names
Short description	Contemporary Muscogee Creek writer and journalist
Date of birth	1972
Place of birth	Muscogee, Oklahoma
Date of death
Place of death