LEVY / SLOAN FELLOW 2025 – 2026

Kristen Iversen

For a biography of Nikola Tesla

Levy/Sloan Fellow Kristen Iversen is the author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, an award-winning work currently being adapted into a documentary. Her other books include Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth;  Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction; and the anthologies Doom with a View and Don’t Look Now. Iversen holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver and teaches at the University of Cincinnati, where she serves as Literary Nonfiction Editor of The Cincinnati Review. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and a newly minted NEH Public Scholar. She is working on a biography of Nikola Tesla entitled Friend and Faithful Stranger: Nikola Tesla in the Gilded Age.