Chuculate, Eddie
THIS INDIAN KID
ABOUT THE BOOK
Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate shares an evocative memoir, bringing his experience from boyhood to young manhood with unflinching prose in THIS INDIAN KID: A NATIVE AMERICAN MEMOIR (on sale September 19, 2023; ages 12+).
Growing up impoverished and shuttled between different households, it seemed life was bound to take a certain path for Eddie Chuculate. Despite the challenges he faced, his upbringing was rich with love and bountiful lessons from his Creek and Cherokee heritage, deep-rooted traditions he embraced even as he learned to live within the culture of white, small-town America that dominated his migratory childhood.
THIS INDIAN KID is at once a love letter to his Native American roots and an inspiring and essential message for young readers everywhere, who are coming of age in an era when conversations
about acceptance and empathy, love and perspective are more necessary than ever before.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
EDDIE CHUCULATE is an American fiction writer of Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee descent. He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Chuculate won a PEN/O. Henry Award in 2007 for his story, "Galveston Bay, 1826." Chuculate's stories have appeared in Manoa, Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, Blue Mesa Review, Many Mountains Moving, and The Kenyon Review. He also 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. He currently lives in Minneapolis.
