Jen Hofer Explained

Jen Hofer
Birth Date:	1971
Birth Place:	San Francisco
Nationality:	American
Awards:	PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Website:	http://antenaantena.org/about-us-2/
Occupation:	American poet and translator
Organization:	Antena-Aire

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.

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,
• 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,

External links

• Web site: Translation by Jen Hofer -- HOW2 . asu.edu . 6 July 2015.
• Web site: Caleb Beckwith with Jen Hofer. theconversant.org. 6 July 2015.
• Web site: THE PLEISTOCENE. tumblr.com. 6 July 2015.
• Web site: Antena @ Blaffer . Nancy . Wozny. 27 March 2014. Arts & Culture Texas. 6 July 2015.
• Web site: Antena. antenaantena.org. 6 July 2015.
• Web site: Jen Hofer . National Endowment for the Arts . 16 March 2018.

Notes and References

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