Page 2 of 4
Author Bio
• Birth—July 24, 1955
• Where—Meridian, Mississippi, USA
• Education—B.A., Mississippi State University; M.A., University of Alabama
• Awards—(below)
• Currently—lives in Laramie, Wyoming
Brad Watson teaches creative writing at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His first collection, Last Days of the Dog-Men, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; his first novel, The Heaven of Mercury, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. (From the publisher .)