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Whitley Watson

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Whitley Watson was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and raised in Alpharetta, Georgia. Watson attended Chattahoochee High School in Alpharetta and the University of Georgia at Athens, where she received a B.F.A. in scientific illustration. Later, she moved the New York City, where she lived in Flushing, Queens and Bushwick, Brooklyn, and worked as a freelance artist and an administrative assistant.