Eddie Chuculate is an American fiction writer of Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee

Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...

 descent. His first book, Cheyenne Madonna

Cheyenne Madonna

Cheyenne Madonna is a collection of linked short stories by Muscogee and Cherokee author Eddie Chuculate, published in July 2010 by Black Sparrow Books, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher, in Boston...

, was published in July 2010 by Black Sparrow Books

Black Sparrow Books

Black Sparrow Books, formerly known as Black Sparrow Press, is a book publisher originally founded in 1966 by John Martin of Santa Rosa, California. He founded this company in order to publish the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant-garde authors. He initially financed this company by...

, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher

David R. Godine, Publisher

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, in Boston

Boston

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. Chuculate won a PEN/O. Henry Award

O. Henry Award

The O. Henry Award is the only yearly award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American master of the form, O. Henry....

 in 2007 for his story, "Galveston Bay, 1826." Chuculate's stories have appeared in Manoa

Manoa

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, Ploughshares

Ploughshares

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, the Iowa Review, Blue Mesa Review, Many Mountains Moving and The Kenyon Review. He is an editor for the Trillium Literary Journal. In the July/Aug. 2010 edition of World Literature Today

World Literature Today

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, Chuculate was featured as the journal's "Emerging Author."

Background

Chuculate was born in Claremore, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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, in 1966, but grew up primarily in Muskogee, Oklahoma

Muskogee, Oklahoma

Muskogee is a city in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the county seat of Muskogee County, and home to Bacone College. The population was 38,310 at the 2000 census, making it the eleventh-largest city in 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

Institute of American Indian Arts

The Institute of American Indian Arts is a college focused on Native American art. It is situated in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is congressionally chartered, and was created by an executive order of former American President John F. Kennedy in 1962...

 and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship

Stegner Fellowship

The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner , an historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty member who founded the university's creative writing program. Ten...

 in creative writing (fiction) at Stanford University

Stanford University

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. In 2010 he was admitted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...

 at the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

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.

Works

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