Kristen Iversen

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Kristen Iversen grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder (BA) and the University of Denver (PhD).  Her work includes the books Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (selected by universities across the country for their First Year Experience/Common Read programs); Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth; and Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. Essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The American Scholar, Reader’s Digest, Fourth Genre, Beloit Fiction Journal, and others. Currently Iversen is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati, where she is a fellow at the Taft Humanities Center and also serves as Literary Nonfiction editor of The Cincinnati Review.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2019*

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