Jen Hofer (born 1971) is an American poet, translator, and interpreter.

Awards

Hofer won the 2012

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year. The award should not be confused with the PEN Translation Prize. The award is one of many ...

, 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... nd isreflexively about translation. Hofer also won the

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

in 2012 for the translation of Myriam Moscona's book ''Negro Marfil/Ivory Black''.

Life

Jen Hofer was born in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, and lives in

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Professional activities

Hofer is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

and

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ...

, and is currently an adjunct professor of MFA writing at

Otis College of Art and Design Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles, California. Established in 1918, it was the city's first independent professional school of art. The main campus is located in the former IBM Aerospace headquarte ...

. Prior to that, Hofer was as an Adjunct Professor at

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...

. 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,

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* * * * * * 1971 births Living people Writers from San Francisco Poets from California California Institute of the Arts faculty American women poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American poets 21st-century American translators 21st-century American women writers Spanish–English translators 20th-century American translators Otis College of Art and Design faculty American women academics {{US-poet-1970s-stub