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Brandon Keith Watson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 12, 1984. He earned a high school diploma from Milwaukee Riverside High School in June of 2002. Watson, in May of 2006, earned an associate in arts degree in journalism from North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City, Iowa.

Journalism Stint

While in Iowa, Watson took interest in print journalism. He served as the news editor for the college's newspaper, Logos. Watson's journalist talents led to him be selected as a 2006 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Intern, one of the most prestigious college internships in the United States. As of the victors, Watson, attended a week-long journalism training at New York University before completing a ten-week business reporting internship at the Rockford Register Star(IL).

Subsequently, he enrolled at Minnesota State University-Moorhead, majoring in Mass Communications. Watson evoked controversy throughout the campus for the articles he wrote in the student newspaper, the Advocate. Depressed and battling a drug addiction, Watson withdrew from MSUM in April of 2007.

Criminal Trouble

He returned to Minneapolis, Minnesota where his family relocated to from Milwaukee, years prior. In June of 2007, Watson was arrested and charged in Ramsey County district court with felony financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult. According to an article published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN), Watson bilked the brain-injured man out of $19,000 under the subterfuge of a business scam. He plead guilty in July of 2007 and was sentenced to serve ninety-days at the Ramsey County Correctional Institution.

Present day

Watson is currently enrolled at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, majoring in English (Creative Writing). He also runs multiple companies, including Bellicose Books, First Tranche Financial Group and Watson Realty Trust.

According to reports, Watson is releasing a book, entitled,Candid Essays to be released in late 2009 by Bellicose Books.

Watson work has also appeared in the New Pittsburg Courier, Pasadena Journal and Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.