Jen Hofer [SEP] date of birth
Jen Hofer
Jen Hofer (born 1971) is an American poet, and translator.
Awards.
Hofer won the 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 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...[and is] reflexively about translation."
Hofer also won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
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Life.
Jen Hofer was born in San Francisco, and lives in Los Angeles.
Professional activities.
Hofer is an American poet and translator.
Hofer is currently an Adjunct Professor of MFA Writing at Otis College of Art and Design. Prior to that, Hofer was as an Adjunct Professor at California Institute of the Arts.
Hofer is the co-founder (along with John Pluecker) of Antena, a "language justice and language experimentation collaborative."
Works.
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