Carl Watson is a poet and fiction writer. His novels include Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming (Sensitive Skin Books) and Idylls of Complicity (Spuyten Duyvil). Poetry collections include Astral Botanica (Fly By Night Press), and Pareidolia (Autonomedia). Editions vagabonde (France) has recently published the novel A contre courant revent les noyes. Autonomedia will release Only Descend in the Fall of 2020. Watson received the Kathy Acker Award for Fiction in 2012.