Geoff Bouvier's first book, Living Room, was selected by Heather McHugh as the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize winner and was published by Copper Canyon Press. In 2009, he served as the poet-in-residence at the University of California-Berkeley. For five years, he wrote long-form magazine journalism with The San Diego Reader, publishing over fifty cover stories in that time. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, New American Writing, and VOLT.