Daniel Joseph Watkins is a writer, producer, and director based in Aspen, Colorado. His first book, Thomas W. Benton: Artist/Activist, won the Colorado Book Award and his second book, Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson’s Campaign for Sheriff, served as the inspiration for the documentary film Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb. Watkins runs the publishing company Meat Possum Press and serves as director of the Fat City Gallery where he has curated over fifty shows and manages traveling museum exhibitions.