Jen Hofer

Jen Hofer
Hofer in 2020
Born1971
San Francisco
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)American poet and translator
OrganizationAntena-Aire
AwardsPEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Websitehttp://antenaantena.org/about-us-2/

Jen Hofer (born 1971[1]) is an American poet, translator, and interpreter.

Biography

Jen Hofer was born in San Francisco,[2] and lives in Los Angeles.

Hofer is an American poet and translator, and is currently an adjunct professor of MFA writing at Otis College of Art and Design.[3] Prior to that, Hofer was as an Adjunct Professor at California Institute of the Arts.[4]

Hofer was the co-founder (with John D. Pluecker) of Antena, a "language justice and language experimentation collaborative".[5]

Awards

Hofer won the 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, for the poem Negro Marfil/Ivory Black.[6] 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.[6]

Hofer also won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award in 2012 for the translation of Myriam Moscona's book Negro Marfil/Ivory Black.[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

  1. ^ "Jen Hofer". Poets.org. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Jen Hofer". Poets.org. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Jen Hofer, Adjunct Professor". Otis College of Art and Design. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Jen Hofer". CalArts.edu. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  5. ^ "About Us". Antena. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  6. ^ a b "2012 PEN Award for Poetry In Translation". PEN America. 14 November 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Jen Hofer receives the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award". Poets.org. June 6, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2022.


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