Ann Cotten

12. 10. 2020

(Austria)

Ann Cotten, born in Iowa (USA), grew up in Vienna, Austria and finished her studies

with a work on concrete poetry before moving to Berlin. Publications: Fremdwörterbuchsonette (2007), Florida-Räume(2010), Der schaudernde Fächer; Hauptwerk. Softsoftporn (2013), Verbannt (2016), Jikiketsugaki.Tsurezuregusa (2016); in English, I, Coleoptile (2010) and Lather In Heaven (2016). Fast Dumm (Starfruit Press, 2017) collects essays on the USA, Was Geht (Sonderzahl, 2018) was a poetics lecture on walking and literature. Her most recent book is speculative fiction: Lyophilia (Suhrkamp 2019).

Photo: Jetmir Idrizi