Kristen Iversen

Kristen Iversen grew up in Colorado and earned her PhD in Literature at the University of Denver. She is the author of the award-winning books Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (now a forthcoming documentary); Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth; and a textbook, Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction, as well as the edited anthologies Don't Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn't Seen and Doom with a View: Historical and Cultural Contexts of Rocky Flats. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, American Scholar, The Nation, and many others. She is a professor at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also Literary Nonfiction Editor of The Cincinnati Review. Iversen also serves as a faculty mentor with the Mile-High MFA program at Regis University in Denver. Kristen has two sons, and she and her husband divide their time between Cincinnati, Ohio and Westcliffe, Colorado. In 2021 she will be a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway. For publications, appearances, and forthcoming books go to www.kristeniversen.com.