Kristen Iversen

Kristen Iversen is an American writer of nonfiction and fiction. Her books include Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, 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. In 2025 Iversen was selected as the Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science, hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center, and was also awarded a NEH Public Scholar grant (2025-2026). She was chosen to be a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway in 2020-2021.