Samuel Wagan Watson

Winner of the 1999 David Unaipon Award for his volume of poetry “Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight”, Samuel Wagan Watson is a Brisbane-based writer and Public Art Project Manager. He has been a salesman, public relations officer, fraud investigator, graphic artist, laborer, law clerk, film industry technician, and an actor. Samuel describes his influences in writing as Nick Cave, Tom Waites, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, and Robert Adamson. His other influences are his father, the novelist, Sam Watson and his mother, who is a specialist teacher.