Jennifer Hofer

In 2002, Jen Hofer moved from the Centro Histrico in Mexico City to Cypress Park in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts and works as a Spanish-language interpreter with the Los Angeles County Superior Courts. Her recent publications include lip wolf, a translation of Laura SolĂłrzano's lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007), Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003), slide rule (subpress, 2002), and the chapbooks laws (Dusie Kollectiv, 2006) and lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003). Her forthcoming books are The Route, an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos), Laws (Dusie Books), and a book-length series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press). She has published poems and translations in numerous small-press publications, including 1913, Aufgabe, Black Clock, Bomb, DISASTER, The Brooklyn Rail, eough, Jacket, Mar con Soroche, Primary Writing and War and Peace. Jen is a member of the Little Fakers collective which creates and produces Sunset Chronicles, a neighborhood-based serial episodic drama populated entirely by hand-made marionettes inhabiting lost, abandoned and ghost spaces in Los Angeles, and is happily a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies' Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.