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American poet
Jen Hofer
Hofer in 2020
Born 1971 Nationality American Occupation(s) American poet and translator Organization Antena-Aire Awards PEN Award for Poetry in Translation;
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award Website
http://antenaantena.org/about-us-2/
Jen Hofer (born 1971
[1] ) is an American poet, translator, and interpreter.
Awards
Hofer won the 2012
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation , for the poem Negro Marfil/Ivory Black .
[2] The PEN Award judges refer to Hofer's translation of Negro Marfil/Ivory Black as a work that "articulates writing as a gesture hovering between binaries, bodies, languages, modes of perception, cultures...[and is] reflexively about translation.
[2]
Hofer also won the
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award in 2012 for the translation of Myriam Moscona's book Negro Marfil/Ivory Black .
[3]
Life
Jen Hofer was born in
San Francisco ,
[4] and lives in
Los Angeles .
Professional activities
Hofer is an American
poet and
translator , and is currently an adjunct professor of MFA writing at
Otis College of Art and Design .
[5] Prior to that, Hofer was as an Adjunct Professor at
California Institute of the Arts .
[6]
Hofer was the co-founder (with John D. Pluecker) of Antena, a "language justice and language experimentation collaborative".
[7]
Works
Poetry
As far as , A+Bend Press, 1999
Slide rule , Subpress, 2002,
ISBN
9781930068155
Lawless , Seeing Eye Books, 2003
Laws , Dusie Kollektiv, 2007
Going Going , Dusie Kollektiv, 2007
13 things I would photograph for you if I could , Self-published, 2009
One , Palm Press, 2009,
ISBN
9780978926298
Trouble : August 2009, 3:15 a.m. , Dusie Kollektiv, 2010
Lead & Tether , California Institute of the Arts, 2011
The Missing Link , Insert Blanc Press, 2014
Translations
Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women , University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003,
ISBN
9780822957980
Laura Solórzano, Lip Wolf , Action Books, 2007,
ISBN
9780976569275
Dolores Dorantes, sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre , Books 2 and 3 of Dolores Dorantes , Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008,
ISBN
9780976736424
Myriam Moscona, Ivory Black , Les Figues Press, 2011,
ISBN
9781934254226
Group projects and Collaborations
Bernadette Mayer, Lee Ann Brown, Jen Hofer, Danika Dinsmore, The 3:15 Experiment , Owl Press, 2001
ISBN
9780966943030
Patrick F. Durgin, Jen Hofer, The Route , Atelos, 2008,
ISBN
9781891190308
References
External links