In 2006 she won the Caine Prize for African Writing and in 2014 was named on the Africa39 list of writers from sub-Saharan Africa aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature.
[2] After receiving a second master's degree at the University of Bristol in 2003,[3] she returned to Cape Town where she completed her PhD.
She worked as a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Cape Town between 2004 and 2008.
[4] Watson is the author of Moss, a collection of short stories published in 2004.
In April 2014, Watson was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of 39 writers from sub-Saharan Africa aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature.