Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Geoffrey G. O'Brien (May 10, 1969) is an American poet. Educated at Harvard University and the University of Iowa, O'Brien has taught at Brooklyn College, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been the Distinguished Poet in Residence at St. Mary's College of California and the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently teaches. He also teaches in the Prison University Project at San Quentin.

Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Born (1969-05-10) May 10, 1969
United States
OccupationPoet, lecturer
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry

On November 9, 2011, O'Brien suffered a rib injury in an altercation with police, while attending a peaceful protest.

O'Brien's poem "Fidelio" was published in the March 19th, 2018 issue of The New Yorker magazine.


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