Seth Brady Tucker

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Denver, CO
Colorado US

Author's Bio

Seth Brady Tucker (S. Brady Tucker)'s second book, "We Deserve the Gods We Ask For" won the Gival Press Poetry Prize, and went on to win the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His first book, “Mormon Boy" won the Elixir Press Editor’s Prize, and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Seth has been the Carol Houck Smith Scholar at Bread Loaf, the Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee, and he founded and is executive director for the Longleaf Writers Conference which takes place in Seaside, Florida every May. He has won numerous 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 recently appeared in the Los Angeles Review, December, Litmag, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, Verse Daily, Indiana Review, North American Review, 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, and Florida State University (PhD, 2012). Currently, Seth is finishing a novel and short fiction collection (which was finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award). He teaches poetry and fiction workshops at the Light House Writer's Workshop in Denver, and lives and teaches creative writing to engineers at the Colorado School of Mines. He is senior prose editor for Tupelo Quarterly Review, and is the Director for the Hennebach Program in the Humanities at Mines. He is originally from Wyoming and served as an Army 82nd Airborne paratrooper in the Persian Gulf.

Literary agent: 
Glass Literary Management

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:
Like Thunder (University of Iowa Press, 2002)
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American Diaspora (University of Iowa Press, 2001)
Book:
Nature and Human Values (Hayden Book Company, 2011)

Fiction

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Art Times
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Crab Orchard Review
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Ducts Magazine
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Mississippi Review
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Oasis
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Pif
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Prose Ax
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Shenandoah
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The God Particle
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The Rusty Nail

Poetry

Books:
We Deserve the Gods We Ask For (Gival Press, 2014)
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Mormon Boy (Elixir Press, 2012)
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Asheville Poetry Review
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Atlanta Review
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Chattahoochee Review
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Connecticut Review
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Crab Orchard Review
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Hazmat Review
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Miller's Pond
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Nassau Review
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Parting Gifts
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Perihelion
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Sojourn
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The Shine Journal
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Writers' Journal
Performances:
AWP (2013)
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Innisfree Poetry Bookstore (2013)
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Gypsy House Reading Series (2012)
Prizes won: 

Winner, Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner, Gival Press Poetry Prize. Winner, Bevel Summers Fiction Prize,Shenandoah. Tennessee Williams Fiction Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference. Pushcart Prize Nominee, Iowa Review. Winner, Literal Latte Fiction Award. Honorable Mention, Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Prize. Finalist, Colorado Book Award. Pushcart Prize Nominee Multiple X. Elixir Press Editor's Poetry Prize. Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Scholar.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Rebecca Makkai, Jesmyn Ward, Richard Powers, Adam Johnson, Anthony Doerr, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Paul Beatty, Louis Erdrich, Margaret Atwood, Andre Dubus III, Nick Flynn

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Lander, WY
Wyoming
Raised in: 
Lander, WY
Wyoming
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Last update: Oct 01, 2024