Jen Hofer | |
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 Hofer in 2020 | |
| Born | 1971 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | American poet and translator |
| Organization | Antena-Aire |
| Awards | PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Harold Morton Landon Translation Award |
| Website | http://antenaantena.org/about-us-2/ |
Jen Hofer (born 1971 [1] ) is an American poet, translator, and interpreter.
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]
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]
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