Kristen Iversen is the author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Reading the West Book Award, and chosen one of the Best Books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews, the American Library Association, and Mother Jones Magazine, and 2012 Best Book about Justice by The Atlantic.  Full Body Burden was also a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.  Iversen is also the author of  Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Barbara Sudler Award for Nonfiction, and a textbook, Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction.  Iversen’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Reader’s Digest, Fourth Genre, and many other publications. She has appeared on C-Span and NPR’s Fresh Air and worked extensively with A&E Biography, The History Channel, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in 2014 was the recipient of the award for Distinguished Achievement in the Creative Arts from The University of Memphis. She holds a PhD from the University of Denver and teaches at The University of Cincinnati.  She also serves as a Faculty Mentor for the Regis University/Mile High MFA program.

Website: www.kristeniversen.com

Twitter Username: @kristeniversen

Publications

• Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats , Crown (2012)
• Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction , Pearson/Prentice Hall (2004)
• Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth , Johnson Books (1999)

Awards

• Distinguished Achievement in the Creative Arts, The University of Memphis(2014)
• Award for Journalistic Excellence, The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability(2013)
• Colorado Book Award in Nonfiction (Full Body Burden)(2013)
• Reading the West Award in Nonfiction(2013)
• Best Book About Justice, The Atlantic (Full Body Burden)(2013)
• One of the Best Books of 2012, Kirkus Reviews, American Library Association (Full Body Burden)(2013)
• Finalist, Barnes & Noble Discover Award (Full Body Burden)(2013)
• Finalist, Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence (Full Body Burden)(2013)
• The Louise Eisenhardt Award for Creative and Academic Accomplishment (The American Association of Neurological Surgeons)(2011)
• Barbara Sudler Award for Nonfiction (Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth)(2003)
• Colorado Book Award for Nonfiction (Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth)(2003)
• Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Prize (2003)

Employment

• Professor at University of Cincinnati (2014 - )
• Associate Professor, Director MFA Program at University of Memphis (2003 - 2014)
• Assistant Professor at San Jose State University (2000 - 2003)
• Literary Nonfiction Editor at The Cincinnati Review (2014 - )
• Faculty Mentor at Regis University/Mile High MFA (2015 - )

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in English/Creative Writing from University of Denver (June 1996)
• Master of Arts in English/Creative Writing from University of Denver (June 1991)
• Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing from University of Colorado (June 1981)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction