Eddie Chuculate

Eddie Chuculate is an American fiction writer who is enrolled in the Muscogee Nation and of Cherokee descent. His first book, Cheyenne Madonna, was published in July 2012 by Black Sparrow Books, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher, in Boston. Chuculate won a PENO. Henry Award in 2007 for his story, Galveston Bay, 1826. Chuculates stories have appeared in Manoa, Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, Blue Mesa Review, Many Mountains Moving and The Kenyon Review. He is an editor for the Trillium Literary Journal. In the JulyAug. 2010 edition of World Literature Today, Chuculate was featured as the journals Emerging Author.

Chuculate was born in Claremore, Oklahoma, 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 at Stanford University. In 2010 he was admitted to the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he graduated with a masters degree in 2013.

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