Seth Brady Tucker

Seth Brady Tucker (S. Brady Tucker) is a poet and fiction writer originally from the city of Lander, Wyoming, and is known for his creative and scholarly contributions to contemporary War Literature, in particular the first Persian Gulf War. His first book won the 2011 Elixir Press Editor’s Poetry Prize (Mormon Boy, 2012), and was a finalist for the 2013 Colorado Book Award. His second book won the Gival Press Poetry Award (We Deserve the Gods We Ask For, 2014) and went on to win the Eric Hoffer Book Award in 2015. He is also the founder and co-director of the Seaside Writers’ Conference (which takes place annually in May in Florida), and teaches veterans and veteran caretakers through the Wounded Warrior Project, and inmates through the prison literacy program, Words Beyond Bars. Seth Brady Tucker is an assistant editor at the Tupelo Quarterly Review, and has previously been on the editing board for the Southeast Review and for Thin Air Magazine.
Tucker’s fiction won the Bevel Summers Fiction Prize from Shenandoah, was a finalist for the Jeff Sharlet Award from the Iowa Review, won the Flash Fiction Award from Literal Latte, and was a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. His poetry has won numerous awards including the Pushcart Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and the Gival Press Poetry Award.
His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Pleiades, Shenandoah, Verse Daily, Iowa Review, Apalachee Review, Chautauqua, Asheville Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Rosebud, North American Review, Witness, Connecticut Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among scores of other journals and anthologies.
Tucker has served as the Carol Houck Smith Scholar in Poetry at Bread Loaf, and as the Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at Sewanee. He has worked as a wine sommelier, a ranch hand, a collegiate basketball player, and has degrees from San Francisco State University, Northern Arizona University, and from the top-ranked Creative Writing program at Florida State University (PhD English 2012). He was a paratrooper with the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and served in the Persian Gulf War.
Tucker is a teaching Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Mines, and has led poetry and fiction workshops for graduate and undergraduate students alike at Florida State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He teaches multi-genre, mixed-genre, and poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction classes at the Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop in Denver, Colorado, where he lives and writes.
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Faculty page at CSM
Seaside Writers Conference faculty page
Eric Hoffer Award
Gival Press Poetry Award
Elixir Press Poetry Award