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'''Eddie Chuculate''' (born 1978) is an American fiction writer who is enrolled in the [[Muscogee (Creek) Nation]] and of [[Cherokee]] descent.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.iaia.edu/academics/degree-programs/creative-writing/student-and-alumni-profiles/ |title=Student and Alumni Profiles | website=Institute of American Indian Arts | accessdate=January 29, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | author=Craig S. Womack | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EOYt0vlkuLEC&pg=PP11 |title=Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism | publisher=University of Minnesota Press | year=2009 | page=1 | isbn=978-0-8166-3022-6 }}</ref> He earned a [[Stegner Fellowship|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."

==Background==
Chuculate was born in [[Claremore, Oklahoma]], in 1978 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]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.stanford.edu/pr/96/960423stegner.html |title=Stegner Fellowship |website=Stanford University News | date=April 23, 1996 }}</ref><ref name="West in my blood" /> 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.<ref name=Ohenry>{{cite web | url=http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/spotlight/chuculate.html | title=Eddie Chuculate, The Pen / O. Henry Prizes | website=Random House | accessdate=August 8, 2009 }}</ref>

==Career==
===Author===
Chuculate wrote ''Voices at Dawn: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts 1995-1996''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chuculate|first=Eddie D.|title=Voices at Dawn: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts 1995-1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-hZAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Institute of American Indian Arts|isbn=978-1-881396-11-6}}</ref>

His story, ''Yoyo'' was published by ''[[The Iowa Review]]''<ref name=Ohenry/><ref>{{cite journal | title=Yoyo | author=Eddie D. Chuculate | journal=The Iowa Review | volume=31 | number=1 | date=Summer 2001 | pages=61–77 | publisher= University of Iowa | doi=10.17077/0021-065X.5366 | jstor=20154906 | doi-access=free }}</ref> and it received a [[Pushcart Prize]] citation.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Chuculate won a PEN / O. Henry Award in 2007 for his story, ''Galveston Bay, 1826.''<ref name=Ohenry /> 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."<ref name="DP">{{cite news | url=http://www.denverpost.com/2007/06/21/foreward-51/ | title=Foreward [sic]: Post staffer honored | website=Denver Post | date=June 21, 2007 |accessdate=December 4, 2016 }}</ref> Chuculate's stories have appeared in ''[[Manoa]]'', ''[[Ploughshares]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=6959 | title=Doug Anderson | website=Ploughshares |accessdate=July 6, 2010 }}</ref> ''Blue Mesa Review,'' ''Many Mountains Moving'' and ''[[The Kenyon Review]]''.<ref name=Ohenry/> In the July / August 2010 edition of ''[[World Literature Today]]'', Chuculate was featured as the journal's "Emerging Author."<ref>{{ cite journal | title=Emerging Author: Fiction by Eddie Chuculate | journal=World Literature Today | volume=84 | number=4 | pages=12–13 | date= January 2010 | jstor=27871122 | last1=Harjo | first1=Joy | last2=Chuculate | first2=Eddie | doi=10.1353/wlt.2010.0252 }}</ref>

His first book of fiction, ''Cheyenne Madonna'', was published in July 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/isbn.asp?isbn=9781574232165 |title=Cheyenne Madonna | publisher=Black Sparrow Books | accessdate=July 6, 2010 }}</ref> It is about a young Creek/Cherokee man who writes home to his father as he wanders the Southwest. [[Joy Harjo]], a Creek poet, says that it "investigates the broken-heart nation of Indian men. The epicenter of action is the tenuous meeting place between boyhood and manhood, between fierce need and desire."<ref name="West in my blood">{{cite news | url=http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.17/the-west-in-my-blood-a-profile-of-eddie-chuculate |author=Chee Brossy | title=The West in my blood: A profile of Eddie Chuculate | website=High Country News | date=October 17, 2012 |accessdate=December 4, 2016 }}</ref> The seven stories follow the life of Jordan Coolwater, who leaves Oklahoma and goes West to pursue a sculpting career, all the while battling the two constants in his life: alcohol and art. The stories also explore history, myth, interracial relationships, racism and father-son relationships.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} On July 19, 2010, [[Publishers Weekly]] review stated, "Chuculate writes forthright prose in a somber key, examining without judgment the lives of Native American characters. ... Memory and will converge here to powerful effect."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/reviews/fiction.html?page=3 | title=Fiction reviews | website=Publishers Weekly |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

"Dear Shorty" from the book is also published in ''Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Horton|first1=D. Seth|last2=Myhren|first2=Brett Garcia|title=Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_VM9wtVeI0C|date=August 1, 2013|publisher=UNM Press|isbn=978-0-8263-5315-3|chapter=Dear Shorty}}</ref>

===Journalist===
Chuculate has worked at ''[[The Tulsa World]]'', ''[[The Fort Worth Star-Telegram]]'', ''[[The Denver Post]]'' and ''[[The Manhattan Mercury]]''.<ref name="DP" /><ref>{{cite news | url=http://baconian.bacone.edu/2011/07/19/bacone-alumn-brings-cheyenne-madonna-to-bacone/ | title=Former Sportswriter Pens 'Cheyenne Madonna' | website=Baconian, Bacone | author=Wendy Burton | date=July 19, 2011 | accessdate=December 4, 2016 }}</ref> He is an editor for the ''Trillium Literary Journal''.<ref>[http://www.trilliumliteraryjournal.org/editors.html Editors], Trillium Literary Journal, trilliumliteraryjournal.org. Retrieved 8 August 2009.</ref>

===Educator===
Chuculate is on the faculty of Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://lighthousewriters.org/person/facdetail/person/12901/name/eddie_chuculate_mfa/ | title=Eddie Chuculate, MFA | website=Lighthouse Writers Workshop | accessdate=December 4, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724103118/https://lighthousewriters.org/person/facdetail/person/12901/name/eddie_chuculate_mfa/ | archive-date=July 24, 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite news | url=http://www.lundy-africa.org/images/links/DP_11.13.05.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828222223/http://www.lundy-africa.org/images/links/DP_11.13.05.pdf | url-status=usurped | archive-date=August 28, 2008 | title=Orphaned by AIDS | author=Bruce Finley | editor=Eddie Chuculate | newspaper=The Sunday Denver Post | date=November 13, 2005 }}
* {{cite journal | author=Joshua D. Miner | title=Beasts of burden: How literary animals remap the aesthetics of removal | journal= Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society | volume=3 | number=2 | year=2014 | quote=Explores the significance of Chuculate's book, ''Cheyenne Madonna'' }}

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