Eddie Chuculate
| Eddie Chuculate | |
|---|---|
| Born | Oct. 26, 1972 Claremore, Oklahoma |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Genres | literary fiction |
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]
[edit] 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]
[edit] Works
- Cheyenne Madonna, July 2010, Black Sparrow Books/David R. Godine, Publisher, in Boston.
[edit] References
- ^ 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.[dead link]
- ^ "Stegner Fellowship." Stanford University News.
