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Christopher Watkins is a poet and songwriter. His poems are appearing or have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, The GW Review, Slipstream, Euphony, Talking River, Red Rock Review, and the anthology "In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself" (MWE Press), among others. He was the Fall 2006 Writer-In-Residence at The Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence Project of Orlando. His debut collection of poems "Short Houses With Wide Porches" is now available from Shady Lane Press. He is a graduate of The Stonecoast MFA Program at The University of Southern Maine.

As a songwriter, he has released five albums under the name Preacher Boy. His most recent release is "Demanding To Be Next" (Coast Road Records). He has received a Gold Record for his songwriting work with Grammy-winning artist Eagle-Eye Cherry.

He was raised in Iowa, Michigan, Italy, and Washington, and has lived with his missus, visual artist Amy Marinelli, in California, Ireland, Colorado, Illinois, and New York. He currently lives in the promised land of Northern California with Amy and their wondrous baby girl, Miss Clara Bay.