Donley Watt has lived in Texas most of his life. He is the author of three books--Can You Get There from Here?--a collection of short stories that won the Steven F. Turner Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for the best first work of fiction in 1994; the novella The Journey of Hector Rabinal, and two novellas titled Haley, Texas 1959. He and his wife, Lynn, an artist, live in San Antonio.