Seth Brady Tucker (born 1969) or "S. Brady Tucker", is an American

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and

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and veteran and is known for his creative and scholarly contributions to contemporary War Literature, in particular, the first

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. His second book of poems, ''We Deserve the Gods We Ask For'', was published by

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in 2015. His first book of poetry, ''Mormon Boy'', was published by Elixir Press in 2012. His books and his fiction and poetry have won Bevel Summers Fiction Prize from Shenandoah, the Flash Fiction Award from Literal Latte, and was a finalist for the Jeff Sharlet Award from the Iowa Review, the Lamar York Nonfiction Prize, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, and was a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology.

Life

Seth Brady Tucker was born in 1969 in

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, a small ranching town east of the Wind River Range. He was raised in a hard-working but poor Mormon family and worked the ranch and as a pipe-cutter and as a paperboy to make ends meet. Tucker was a standout high school basketball player but joined the US Army immediately after graduation and after a year of training reported to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the Quick Reaction Force and the

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. Tucker served in the

, and wrote about his experiences in his first book, "Mormon Boy," published by Elixir Press in 2012. Tucker was honorably discharged in 1992 and drove across the country to California to attend school at San Francisco State University as an Electrical Engineer major. Tucker was actively writing and was known as a voracious reader, so soon switched majors to English Literature with a focus in Creative Writing. While at SFSU, Tucker played for the collegiate men's basketball team there, working nights as a Sommelier. Tucker went on to earn degrees from

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Northern Arizona University Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public research university based in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1899, it was the third and final university established in the Arizona Territory. It is one of the three universities gove ...

, and from the top-ranked Creative Writing program at

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(PhD English 2012).

Career

Tucker founded and co-directs the Longleaf Writers' Conference (which takes place annually in May in Florida). Tucker teaches in veteran and caretaker programs and inmates through prison literacy programs and as a first-generation college student himself, actively works with students at the

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. Tucker is a Senior Prose editor at the

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, and has previously been on the editing board for the Southeast Review and for Thin Air Magazine. Tucker teaches multi-genre, mixed-genre, and poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction classes at the Lighthouse Writers' Workshop in

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, where he lives and writes.

Published works

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Mormon Boy, Elixir Press, 2012.
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We Deserve the Gods We Ask For, Gival Press, 2015.
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Amazon Author Page

References

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Sundress Interview
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Interview

External links

Author Website

Longleaf Writers Conference page

Lighthouse Writers Workshop page

Listing at Poets and Writers

Listing at the Associated Writers and Writing Conferences website

Faculty page at CSM

Gival Press Poetry Award

Elixir Press Poetry Award
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tucker, Seth Brady Living people American male poets American fiction writers Writers from Wyoming People from Lander, Wyoming San Francisco State University alumni Northern Arizona University alumni Florida State University alumni Colorado School of Mines faculty 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers 1969 births