Autumn Watts, MFA
Lecturer, Writing
Phone: (974) 492 6454
PROFILE
Autumn Watts earned her BA in Cultural Anthropology at Portland State University and her MFA in Creative Writing at Cornell University prior to her appointment as the Writing Center Coordinator at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Qatar Narratives and Best New Poets, and she enjoys collaborations with visual artists. Her current work explores the natural and "unnatural" history of rural Nevada: its rodeo culture, dry lake beds, nuclear history, and aquatic fossils.
PUBLICATIONS
- Watts, Autumn. "Keeping Faith" (essay). Qatar: Then and Now. Ed. Carol Henderson and Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar. Forthcoming in February 2009.
- Watts, Autumn. "The Tale Unfolds" (contributed text). Article by Shalinee Bharadwaj. Woman Today. December 2008
- Watts, Autumn. "Until the Lake Froze Solid" (contributed text). Installation by Tara Cooper. MFA Thesis Exhibition, Olive Tjaden Gallery, April 2008. Media: text, video, canvas.
- Watts, Autumn. "Notes From Conversations I Failed to Have" (essay). Qatar Narratives, Ed. Carol Henderson and Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar. Doha 2008
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