Charles Watts grew up in Roseville, California and graduated from the University of California at Davis in 1969. He received his M.A. from Simon Fraser University where he was the assistant curator of the Contemporary Literature Collection at the SFU Library. He edited West Coast Line magazine and published Bread and Wine (1987). In 1995, with Edward Byrne and others, he organized "The Recovery of the Public World: A Conference and Festival in Honour of the Poetry and Poetics of Robin Blaser" in Vancouver. Watts co-edited The Recovery of the Public World: Essays on Poetics in Honour of Robin Blaser (Talonbooks, 1998) and died in August of 1998.

[BCBW 2004] "Poetry"