Seth Brady Tucker is the author of We Deserve the Gods We Ask For, which won the Gival Press Poetry Award and went on to win the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Mormon Boy won the Elixir Press Editor’s Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. His fiction, essays, and poetry have won a number of individual writing awards including the Shenandoah Bevel Summers Fiction Prize and the Literal Latte Short Fiction Award, among others. His recent work appears in such magazines and journals as Copper Nickel, the Los Angeles Review, the Birmingham Poetry Review, Driftwood, Lit Mag, the North American Review, and Poetry Northwest, among many others.

Seth also is a founder and the current executive director of the Longleaf Writers’ Conference, which takes place every May in Seaside, Florida. Seth is an alumnus of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and he has degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, Northern Arizona University, and top-ranked Florida State University (PhD, 2012).

Seth’s fiction is represented by Alex Glass at Glass Literary Management, New York. Seth teaches poetry and fiction workshops at the Light House Writer’s Workshop as well as the Colorado School of Mines near Denver where he is a full teaching professor. He is originally from Wyoming and once served as an Army 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper in Iraq.