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.