Jen Hofer | |
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 Hofer in 2020 | |
| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | American poet and translator |
| Organization | Antena-Aire |
| Awards | PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Harold Morton Landon Translation Award |
| Website | https://antenaantena.org/about-us-2/ |
Jen Hofer (born 1971) is an American poet, translator, and interpreter.
Jen Hofer was born in San Francisco, 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. Prior to that, Hofer was as an Adjunct Professor at California Institute of the Arts.
Hofer was the co-founder (with JD Pluecker) of Antena Aire (formerly called Antena), a "language justice and language experimentation collaborative".
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 in 2012 for the translation of Myriam Moscona's book Negro Marfil/Ivory Black.
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