Jen Hofer


Jen Hofer is an American poet, translator, and interpreter.

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... 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.

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 . Prior to that, Hofer was as an Adjunct Professor at California Institute of the Arts.
Hofer is the co-founder of , a "language justice and language experimentation collaborative."

Works

;Translations
;Group projects and Collaborations