POP PERSON - BRAD WATSON

BRAD WATSON

Brad Watson, born in Meridian Mississippi, publised his first work, a collection of short stories called Last Day of the Dog-Men, which won a Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Author of The Heaven of Mercury talks with Robert Birnbaum Writer Brad Watson was born in Meridien, Mississippi and studied at Mississippi State University and received an MFA from the University of Alabama. He has been a journalist and English instructor and recently completed a five-year stint teaching creative writing at Harvard. His short fiction has been published in Story, Black Warrior Review, Greensboro Review and Dog Stories. His short story collection, Last Days of the Dog-Men, won a Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His first novel is The Heaven of Mercury. Brad Watson and family have recently moved to Pensacola, Florida, where he teaches at the University of West Florida.