Charles [From Old Catalog] Watts

Early in his career, Charles Watts had an underground play ("Visigoths") produced in Los Angeles, which led to script writing contracts for several TV series. He fled Hollywood, got an MFA in poetry, and went to Iran to teach literature. For five years, he edited Seizure, a magazine of poetry and fiction. He has been a cab driver, worked in refugee camps in Southeast Asia and Central America, and owned a tour company. He has published stories and poems in a broad range of literary journals. ...See more

Early in his career, Charles Watts had an underground play ("Visigoths") produced in Los Angeles, which led to script writing contracts for several TV series. He fled Hollywood, got an MFA in poetry, and went to Iran to teach literature. For five years, he edited Seizure, a magazine of poetry and fiction. He has been a cab driver, worked in refugee camps in Southeast Asia and Central America, and owned a tour company. He has published stories and poems in a broad range of literary journals. "Karma in the High Peaks," an anthology from Ra Press that included ten of his poems, won the "People's Choice Award" for best book of 2010 from the Adirondack Center for Writing. See less