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Kristen Iversen is an American writer of nonfiction and fiction, and the author of ''Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats'' (2012),〔http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449009673〕 ''(Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth )'' and ''Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction''. ==Life and Work== Iversen was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in Arvada, Colorado, near the Rocky Flats nuclear weaponry facility. She received a BA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder and worked as a travel writer in Europe for several years before returning to the states to earn a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver.〔http://www.memphis.edu/english/bios/iversen.htm〕 Iversen has taught at universities around the country, including the MFA programs at San Jose State University and Naropa University. She served as director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Memphis and as editor-in-chief of The Pinch, an award-winning literary journal. During the summers, she has been on the faculty of the MFA Low-Residency Program at the University of New Orleans,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Faculty )〕 held in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and in Edinburgh, Scotland. As of June 2015, Iversen teaches in the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. Iversen is the author of ''(Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats )'', a book of memoir and investigative journalism that traces her experience of growing up in a small Colorado community near Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated as “the most contaminated site in America.” She later worked at the plant herself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guest Blog: Kristen Iversen )〕 Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats won the (2013 Colorado Book Award ) and the (Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction ). It was also chosen one of the Best Books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews and the American Library Association, and 2012 Best Book about Justice by The Atlantic. The book was a finalist for the (Barnes & Noble Discover Award ) and the (Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence ). In 2012, an excerpt from ''Full Body Burden'' was published in the June 11th edition of The Nation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dirty Secrets of Rocky Flats )〕 Many universities have chosen Full Body Burden for their First Year Experience/Common Read programs. Iversen also authored ''(Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth )'' is a biography of Margaret Tobin Brown, known to history as “the Unsinkable Molly Brown.” The book won the Colorado Book Award for Biography and the Barbara Sudler Award for Nonfiction and formed the basis for seven television documentaries, including the A&E Biography Molly Brown: An American Legend. Her work has appeared in The New York Times〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fallout at a Former Nuclear Weapon Plant )〕 and many other publications. Iversen is also a co-founder of Orphan Press. Iversen has two sons and lives in Cincinnati. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kristen Iversen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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