Seth Brady Tucker (S. Brady Tucker) is a poet and fiction writer originally from Lander, Wyoming. His first book (Mormon Boy, 2012) won the Elixir Press Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and his second book (We Deserve the Gods We Ask For) won the Gival Press Poetry Award, and was released in September, 2014. He has degrees in writing and literature from San Francisco State University, Northern Arizona University, and Florida State University (PhD, 2012). In a different life, he served as a paratrooper with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, and was a collegiate basketball player at SFSU. Seth currently lives, writes, and teaches near the Colorado School of Mines, and at the Lighthouse Writers' Workshop in Denver. His fiction and poetry have won numerous awards, most recently the Bevel Summers Fiction Prize from Shenandoah and the Literal Latte Fiction Award, and he has been the Carol Houck Smith Scholar of Poetry at Bread Loaf, and the Tennessee Williams Scholar of Fiction at Sewanee.