Sheila Martin Watson (née Doherty)(born 24 Oct 1909, at New Westminster, British Columbia,- died1 Feb 1998 at Nanaimo, British Columbia) was a Canadian novelist, critic and teacher.
Watson studied at the University of British Columbia and later at the University of Toronto under Marshall McLuhan, where her thesis focused on the work of English painter and author Wyndham Lewis. Between 1933 and 1952 she worked as an elementary and high school teacher in New Westminster, Dog Creek, Mission City, Duncan, and Powell River, British Columbia. She also taught at Moulton Ladies College in Toronto between 1946 and 1949. Between 1949 and 1951 she was a sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia. In 1961, Watson was hired as a professor of English at the University of Alberta. She retired in 1975.
She is best known for her modernist novel The Double Hook (1959), which was a seminal work in the development of contemporary Canadian literature. She also published a novel Deep Hollow Creek, which she had written in the 1930s, in 1992. It was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. Watson was also a founding member of the short-lived arts journal White Pelican.