Jen Hofer (born 1971) 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. 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.
Hofer also won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award in 2012 for the translation of Myriam Moscona's book Negro Marfil/Ivory Black.
Life
Jen Hofer was born in San Francisco, 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. Prior to that, Hofer was as an Adjunct Professor at California Institute of the Arts.
Hofer was the co-founder (with John D. Pluecker) of Antena, a "language justice and language experimentation collaborative".
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,