Jen Hofer
Jen Hofer is an American poet, translator, and interpreter.
Biography
Jen Hofer was born in San Francisco, 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. Prior to that, Hofer was as an Adjunct Professor at California Institute of the Arts.
Hofer was the co-founder of Antena, a "language justice and language experimentation collaborative".
Awards
Hofer won the 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, for the poem Negro Marfil/Ivory Black. 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... reflexively about translation.Hofer also won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award in 2012 for the translation of Myriam Moscona's book Negro Marfil/Ivory Black.
Works
Poetry
- As far as, A+Bend Press, 1999
- Slide rule, Subpress, 2002,
- 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,
- 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,
- Laura Solórzano, Lip Wolf, Action Books, 2007,
- Dolores Dorantes, sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, Books 2 and 3 of Dolores Dorantes, Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008,
- Myriam Moscona, Ivory Black, Les Figues Press, 2011,
Group projects and Collaborations
- Bernadette Mayer, Lee Ann Brown, Jen Hofer, Danika Dinsmore, The 3:15 Experiment, Owl Press, 2001
- Patrick F. Durgin, Jen Hofer, The Route, Atelos, 2008,