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  • Brad Watson
    Brad Watson
    Brad Watson was an award-winning author and director of the University of Wyoming's creative writing program. He published four books, including his 2010 short story collection, Aliens in the Prime of...

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    Miss Jane

  • Bruce Watson
    While becoming a writer, Bruce Watson worked as a factory hand, a journalist, a bartender, an office temp, a Peace Corps volunteer, and an elementary school teacher.

    As a frequent contributor to&...

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    Light

  • Christie Watson
    Christie Watson
    Christie Watson trained as a pediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and worked as a senior staff nurse and educator for over ten years before joining the University of East Anglia ...

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    Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

  • Fred Watson
    Fred Watson
    Dr Fred Watson is Astronomer-in-Charge of the Anglo-Australian Observatory at Coonabarabran in central New South Wales, where he is responsible for the scientific output of Australia's largest...

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    Stargazer

  • Jan Elizabeth Watson
    Jan Elizabeth Watson
    Jan Elizabeth Watson is a writer who lives and teaches in Maine. A graduate of Columbia University's MFA program. her first novel, Asta in the Wings, was published by Tin House Books to critical ...

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    Asta in the Wings

  • Jude Watson
    Jude Watson is the author of four 39 Clues books, Beyond the Grave, In Too Deep, Vespers Rising, and A King's Ransom, along with the bestselling Star Wars: Last of the Jedi and Jedi Quest series. As ...

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  • Larry Watson
    Larry Watson was raised in Bismarck, North Dakota, and is the author of ten critically acclaimed books, including the bestselling Montana 1948. His fiction has been published internationally and has ...

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    The Lives of Edie Pritchard
    As Good as Gone
  • Paul Watson
    Paul Watson is the author of Where War Lives and the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Headliner Award, the George Polk Award, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal. He lives in Vancouver.

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    Ice Ghosts

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