Eddie Chuculate
| Eddie Chuculate | |
|---|---|
| Born | Claremore, Oklahoma |
| Occupation | Writer and editor |
| Nationality | Muscogee Creek Nation |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
Eddie Chuculate is an American fiction writer who is enrolled in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and of Cherokee descent. He earned at Wallace Stegner Fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University. His first book is Cheyenne Madonna. For his short story, Galveston Bay, 1826, Chuculate was awarded the O. Henry Award. In 2010 World Literature Today featured Chuculate as the journal's "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 two-year 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 master's degree in 2013.
Chuculate wrote Voices at Dawn: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts 1995-1996.
His story, Yoyo was published by the The Iowa Review and it received a Pushcart Prize citation.
Chuculate won a PEN / O. Henry Award in 2007 for his story, Galveston Bay, 1826. In it, four Cheyenne people encounter the ocean for the first time when they travel to the Gulf of Mexico, experiencing a "cataclysmic journey" on their way. Ursula K. Le Guin, a short-story writer and novelist, was one of the jurors and she wrote an essay about her favorite piece. She said Chuculate's story "won me first, and last, by surprising me: every sentence unexpected, yet infallible. On rereading, both qualities remain... The calm, beautiful, unexplaining accuracy of description carries us right through the madness of the final adventure." Chuculate's stories have appeared in Manoa, Ploughshares,Blue Mesa Review, Many Mountains Moving and The Kenyon Review. In the July / August 2010 edition of World Literature Today, Chuculate was featured as the journal's "Emerging Author."
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