Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Who is Geoffrey G. O'Brien?

Geoffrey G. O'Brien 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.

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