Jen Hofer

Jen Hofer (born 1971^[1]) is an American poet, translator, and interpreter.

Jen Hofer
Hofer in 2020
Born	1971 (age 53–54) San Francisco
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/

Biography

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 JD Pluecker) of Antena, a "language justice and language experimentation collaborative".^[5]

Awards

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]

Works

Poetry

• As far as, A+Bend Press, 1999
• Slide rule, Subpress, 2002, ISBN 9781930068155
• 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, ISBN 9780978926298
• 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, ISBN 9780822957980
• Laura Solórzano, Lip Wolf, Action Books, 2007, ISBN 9780976569275
• Dolores Dorantes, sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, Books 2 and 3 of Dolores Dorantes, Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008, ISBN 9780976736424
• Myriam Moscona, Ivory Black, Les Figues Press, 2011, ISBN 9781934254226

Group projects and Collaborations

• Bernadette Mayer, Lee Ann Brown, Jen Hofer, Danika Dinsmore, The 3:15 Experiment, Owl Press, 2001 ISBN 9780966943030
• Patrick F. Durgin, Jen Hofer, The Route, Atelos, 2008, ISBN 9781891190308