Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of the Rocky Flats
Speaker:
Kristen Iversen
03 Dec 2019
7:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Co-sponsors:
- MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
- Department of English
- Pearl Hogrefe Fund
- Humanities Iowa
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Dr. Kristen Iversen is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati, where she is a fellow at the Taft Humanities Center and serves as literary nonfiction editor of The Cincinnati Review. Dr. Iversen is the author of three books, including the award-winning Full Body Burden. Her lecture will discuss writing strategies about her childhood in the Rockies. Dr. Iversen will also host a craft talk at 2:10pm in Ross 212. As part of the Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series, she will talk about research, art, ethics, and aesthetics in creative non-fiction.