Watson is author of six collections of poems, most recently, pray me stay eager (Alice James Books).
Other honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant and a 1997 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
[3] Watson has translated eleven books, including The Alphabet in the Park: The Selected poems of Adélia Prado (Wesleyan University Press), for which she was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship and interviewed by BOMB Magazine.
Her poems have appeared in literary journals, including Orion Magazine,[4] Ploughshares, Boulevard, The Cortland Review, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Tin House,[5] and The New Yorker, and in anthologies including After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events (Santa Lucia Books, 2008), Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, (Wesleyan University Press, 2000), and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences (Four Way Books, 2005).
She is a poetry editor for The Massachusetts Review,[7] and a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board.