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Kristen Iversen is the author of Full Body Burden Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and Molly Brown Unraveling the Myth, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Barbara Sudler Award for Nonfiction. Full Body Burden was chosen by Kirkus Reviews and the American Library Association as one of the Best Books of 2012 and named 2012 Best Book about Justice by The Atlantic. Iversen’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Reader’s Digest, 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 NEH. She holds a Ph.D from the Universit ...more

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	Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats 4.06 avg rating — 4,539 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth by Kristen Iversen (Goodreads Author), Muffet Brown (Foreword by) 3.88 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Don’t Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn’t Seen (21st Century Essays) by Kristen Iversen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Lazar (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sites of Insight: A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places by James Lough, Christie Smith, SueEllen Campbell really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pinch Spring 2009 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Pinch (Fall 2006: Volume 26, Issue 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Literary life in Cincinnati

This past year has brought many changes to my life: a new city, a new job, and the start of a new book. I’m thrilled to be heading up a new PhD program in Literary Nonfiction at The University of Cincinnati, and excited to be in a city with such a vibrant arts and writing community.

Here’s a fun article that recently appeared in Cincinnati Magazine.

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All the Light We Cannot See

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“Silence is an easy habit. But it doesn't come naturally. Silence has to be cultivated, enforced by implication and innuendo, looks and glances, hints of dark consequence. Silence is greedy. It insists upon its own necessity. It transcends generations.”
― Kristen Iversen

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“I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves of tall prairie grass bowed to the wind, or sprawling mantles of white frosted with a thin sheath of ice in winter.”
― Kristen Iversen, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

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“The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.”
― Kristen Iversen, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

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