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Buckskin Cocaine

by Erika T. Wurth

Erika T. Wurth's Buckskin Cocaine is a wild, beautiful ride into the seedy underworld of Native American film. These are stories about men maddened by fame, actors desperate for their next buckskin gig, directors grown cynical and cruel, and dancers who leave everything behind in order to make it, only to realize at thirty that there is nothing left. Poetic and strange, Wurth’s characters and vivid language will burn themselves into your mind, and linger.

Advance Praise

This is the raw stuff, the loud stuff, the hard stuff,the true stuff. It’ll infect you in a way you won’t realize at first, too. Not until days later, when you can’t remember if you read this or you lived it. Trust me: you did both.
— Stephen Graham Jones author of The Only Good Indians, Ledfeather, and The Gospel of Z

Wurth is a master of brutal beauty and hypnoticprose. The characters in this collection are beasts,driven mad by ego and desire, their collectivehumanity shimmering just beneath the surface. That humanity, struggling to shine through, only to be stomped down again and again will leave you shaken, haunted, unable to let go of the book. — Andrea Kneeland, author of How To pose for Hustler

Buckskin Cocaine is a big voicey chorus of drugs, sex, booze, movies, and most of all the drumbeat of want, need, and desire. — Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk

Author Bio

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Erika T. Wurth
Erika T. Wurth

Erika T. Wurth’s publications include two novels, Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend and You Who Enter Here, two collections of poetry and a collection of short stories, Buckskin Cocaine. A writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, she teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University and has been a guest writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Buzzfeed, Boulevard, Lithub, The Writer’s Chronicle, Bitch, Waxwing and The Kenyon Review. She will be faculty at Breadloaf in 2021, is a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Scholar, attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, and has been chosen as a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. She is Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee and was raised outside of Denver, where she lives with her partner, her two stepchildren, and her extremely fluffy dogs.