Geoff Bouvier
Geoff Bouvier's first book, Living Room, (Copper Canyon Press), was selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His writings have appeared in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, New American Writing, Western Humanities Review, and VOLT.
Bouvier received an MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 1997. He lives in San Diego, where he waits tables at Tapenade Restaurant, and publishes journalistic prose for the Reader. He was also appointed as the 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley.
Recent Stories
Deadly Mosquitoes Breed in Our Urban Drool
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009
A few days after an autumn picnic near Los Peñasquitos Lagoon, a local grade-schooler comes down with the flu. Fever, ...
It's Getting Ugly Downtown
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
One Who’s Out and Wants In A man walks into the lobby of a downtown sales office on Sixth Avenue ...
$120 Is Music to Our Ears
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008
It’s Friday morning, and a woman in casual clothes, with a viola case on her back, bicycles down Harbor Drive. ...
Illegal Ways to Avoid the Border Wait
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
They’re still building roads out on Otay Mesa, about three miles north of the international border. The hot tar takes ...
They Think They’re in Love
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
According to a survey of 4600 teenagers (aged 12–17) conducted recently by Mediamark Research Inc., 89 percent of teens say ...
What's Wrong with Balboa Park?
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
If the Pacific Ocean is San Diego’s swimming pool, Balboa Park is our backyard. When we want to get out ...
Way Too Many People Live Out Here
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
A lawsuit was filed in March of this year by five environmental groups — including the Center for Biological Diversity ...
You Wanna Pull?
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
On a Saturday spring morning, in a small fenced-in backyard in San Marcos, 40 or so rather dangerous-looking men (and ...
No One’s Ever Told Me That I Look Like a Fish
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
“First of all,” says Dave Huie, “it should really be called the exotic fish hobby, not the tropical fish hobby.” ...
Chivalry Is Not Dead
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Seemingly everything has been called a “lost art.” Spelling, conversation, keeping a secret, note taking, listening, and even (why not?) ...


