Seth Brady Tucker was born in 1969 in Lander, Wyoming, a small ranching town east of the Wind River Range.
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 82nd Airborne Division.
Tucker served in the Persian Gulf War, 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 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.