Ann Cotten

Ann Cotten, born 1982 in Iowa (USA), grew up in Vienna, Austria, where she studied German Literature. In 2006 she moved to Berlin. Her first book of poems consisted of 78 double-sonnets, creating a surprise effect in the German poetry scene. Since, she has published her diploma thesis on concrete poetry (Nach der Welt, Klever Verlag 2008), a second book of poetry and prose ostensibly written by a palette of characters (Florida-Rooms, Suhrkamp 2010), a 1-Euro elegy (Das Pferd, SuKultur 2007), a part of a bibliophile "Schock" edition (Pflock in der Landschaft, 2011) and a book in English; I, Coleoptile (Broken Dimanche Press, 2011). With Monika Rinck and Sabine Scho, she performs the "Rotten Kinck Schow", a wild theory and paper-mache thing, irregularly.