Ann Cotten (born 1982 in Ames, Iowa) is an American-born Austrian writer.
Ann Cotten (born 1982 in Ames, Iowa) is an American-born Austrian writer.
At the age of five, Cotten moved to Vienna with her parents, who are both biochemists who worked in Vienna. [1] She finished university there in 2006 with a work about concrete poetry. At the same time she first emerged as a poet at poetry slams. In 2007 Cotten, whose work has been published in anthologies and poetry journals, found considerable success as a writer with her first book, Fremdwörterbuchsonnette, which was published at Suhrkamp. Other books with Suhrkamp are Florida-Räume in 2001, Der schaudernde Fächer in 2013, Verbannt! Versepos in 2016. [2]
Some of Cotten's poems have been translated into English and published in journals like burning deck (USA). In 2010 she collaborated with visual artist Kerstin Cmelka in a book called I, Coleoptile [3] containing original English poetry and film stills, published by Broken Dimanche Press. The book Lather in Heaven, [4] published by the same editor in 2016, assembles her work in English up to date, as well as some selected translations from the German.
In 2016, Jikiketsugaki. Tsurezuregusa, [5] was published by the Peter Engstler Verlag. It contains a selection of Cotten's poems and prose, inspired by Japan, Japanese literature, and the semiotics of the Japanese language. Fast Dumm, Essays von on the road [6] is a reflecting book about visiting the United States, including poems, essays, photographies and her own translations of poems of other poets, like Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Katia Sophia Ditzler. The book was published by Starfruit Publications in 2017.
Since 2020 Cotten has started work on a PhD project at Peter Szondi Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft at Freie Universität Berlin, [7] with the current working title "Misuseability. Aesthetic Recycling and Deviance as a Feedback Monitoring System (or How To Like Poems and Essays)". [8]
Since 2023 Cotten has taken on co-editorship (with Sandro Huber [9] and Gerd Sulzenbacher) of the bi-yearly journal "Triëdere" for theory and literature. [10]
Cotten lives in Vienna and in Berlin. She relinquished US citizenship in 2005. [11]
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