Five Questions with Seth Brady Tucker

Seth Brady Tucker’s third book, The Cruelty Virtues, will appear through 3:A Taos Press in January 2026. He is the executive director of the Longleaf Writers’ Conference and he teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop and is an award-winning professor at the Colorado School of Mines near Denver. He is the author of the award-winning poetry books Mormon Boy and We Deserve the Gods We Ask For, and his poetry, fiction, and essays have recently appeared in the Los Angeles Review, LitMag, Driftwood, Copper Nickel, the Louisville Review, Post Road, and the Birmingham Poetry Review, among many others. He is originally from Wyoming and once served as an Army Paratrooper with the 82^nd Airborne in Iraq. 

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