Eddie D. Chuculate

Oklahoma native Eddie Chuculate is an American fiction writer and memoirist and is Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee Indian. He's an enrolled member of the Creek Nation. His memoir, "This Indian Kid," is forthcoming from Scholastic (Focus) in September 2023. His first book, Cheyenne Madonna, was published in July 2010 by Black Sparrow Books, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher, in Boston. A second edition was published in July 2021. Chuculate won a PEN/O. Henry Award for the first story in the collection, "Galveston Bay, 1826." Prize juror Ursula K. Le Guin selected it as her favorite and her essay on the story appears in "O. Henry Prize Stories 2007," published by Anchor/Doubleday. Chuculate's stories have also appeared in Manoa, Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, Blue Mesa Review, Many Mountains Moving and the Kenyon Review. He held a Wallace Stegner creative writing fellowship at Stanford University and graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 2013 with a master of fine arts degree. He also earned an associate degree at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. Chuculate began a journalism career at age 16 while in high school in Muskogee, Okla., and went on to write and edit for several metro daily newspapers. He has also picked pecans, moved furniture, worked as a day laborer, received food stamps and sold his plasma in five states. He has lived in Hanna, Okla.; Jemez Pueblo, N.M.; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Oakland; Denver; and resides in downtown Minneapolis.