The University of Cincinnati’s annual Visiting Writers Series wraps up with an appearance by Kristen Iversen, who’s no longer a visitor to the Queen City. A native of Colorado, Iversen is an experienced educator and versatile writer of both fiction and nonfiction works, the most recent of which, 2012’s acclaimed Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of the Rocky Flats, mixes memoir and investigative journalism to powerful, illuminating effect. Iversen joined UC’s Creative Writing Department last fall. “I am very excited about the opportunity to help build the program in creative nonfiction at the University of Cincinnati, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and thrilled to be joining a program with such vibrant faculty and talented students,” she said recently via the department’s website.
Iversen speaks 4 p.m. Friday. Free. UC’s Elliston Room, 646 Langsam Library, University of Cincinnati, Clifton Heights, 513-556-5860.
This article appears in Mar 25-31, 2015.