Kris­ten Iversen, PhD, is an Amer­i­can author, pro­fes­sor, jour­nal­ist, and schol­ar whose work inter­weaves mem­oir, his­to­ry, and inves­tiga­tive non­fic­tion. A 2026 Guggen­heim Fel­low in Biog­ra­phy, she is also a Ful­bright Schol­ar, an NEH Pub­lic Schol­ar, the 2025 – 2026 Leon Levy/​Alfred P. Sloan Fel­low at CUNY, and a two-time win­ner of the Col­orado Book Award. Her mem­oir Full Body Bur­den: Grow­ing Up in the Nuclear Shad­ow of Rocky Flats won the Col­orado Book Award and the Read­ing the West Book Award, was named a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews and the Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion and is the basis of a forth­com­ing doc­u­men­tary. Her books include Full Body Bur­den, Mol­ly Brown: Unrav­el­ing the Myth, and Shad­ow Box­ing: Art and Craft in Cre­ative Non­fic­tion; she also edit­ed Doom with a View and co-edit­ed Don’t Look Now and When I Knew. Her forth­com­ing biog­ra­phy, The Poet of Sci­ence: Niko­la Tes­la in the Gild­ed Age, will be pub­lished by Crown. Iversen has taught at uni­ver­si­ties across the Unit­ed States and abroad and is cur­rent­ly Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cincin­nati, where she also serves as Lit­er­ary Non­fic­tion Edi­tor of The Cincin­nati Review. Orig­i­nal­ly from Col­orado, she is mar­ried and has two sons.