Geoff Bouvier’s first book, Living Room, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize in 2005.  He holds degrees from the Univeristy of Connecticut and from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.  His chapbook, Everybody Had a Hat, won the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Contest in 2000.  He lives in San Diego, where he waits tables at Tapenade Restaurant, and publishes journalistic prose with The San Diego Reader.