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American writer

Kristen Iversen is an American writer of nonfiction and fiction.

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Her books include Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats,^[1]Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth and Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction, as well as the anthologies Don't Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn't Seen and Doom with a View: Historical and Cultural Contexts of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. She is a Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati and Literary Nonfiction Editor of The Cincinnati Review.

Iversen was chosen to be a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway in 2020-2021.

Life and work

Kristen Iversen was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in Arvada, Colorado, near the Rocky Flats nuclear weaponry facility. Her father was a small-town attorney and her mother worked as a public health nurse.

The eldest of four children, Iversen attended Colorado Stat Kristen Iversen - Wikipedia KAJ