Seth Brady Tucker

Seth Brady Tucker (S. Brady Tucker)'s second book, "We Deserve the Gods We Ask For" (2014) won the Gival Press Poetry Prize, and went on to win the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His first book, “Mormon Boy" (2012) won the 2011 Elixir Press Editor’s Prize, and was a finalist for the 2013 Colorado Book Award. Seth has been the Carol Houck Smith Scholar at Bread Loaf, the Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee, and founded and directs the Longleaf Writers Conference, which takes place in Seaside, Florida every May. He has won a number of writing awards including the Shenandoah Bevel Summers Fiction Prize and the Literal Latte Short Fiction Award, and his poetry and fiction is forthcoming or has appeared in the Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, Chautauqua, Verse Daily, Indiana Review, North American Review, River Styx, Asheville Poetry Review, storySouth, Crab Orchard Review, and many other journals and anthologies. He is represented by Alex Glass at Glass Literary Management, New York. Seth has degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, Northern Arizona University (where he resurrected and worked as Poetry and Fiction Editor for Thin Air magazine), and Florida State University (PhD, 2012). Currently, Seth is writing a novel entitled, "The Baptisms of Albert Shoe," and recently finished his first short fiction collection (which was also a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award), entitled, "Outfit Means Something Different Here." He teaches poetry and fiction workshops at the Light House Writer's Workshop in Denver, and lives and teaches creative writing near the Colorado School of Mines. He is originally from Wyoming and served as an Army 82nd Airborne paratrooper in the Persian Gulf.