Ann Cotten Ann Cotten, born in Iowa, grew up in Vienna, Austria, where she studied German Literature. 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 cncrete 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. In 2013 she published The Quivering Fan a collection of short stories in German currently being translated into English and has been working on a project on the Kanji in Japan. Read More Read Less