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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 U...more

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Full Body Burden garners awards

On April 16, I was very honored in Washington, DC to receive an award from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, along with fellow honorees U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, director and filmmaker Kathleen Sullivan, and environmental lawyer Diane Curran. My sister Karma was in the audience. It was an evening I will never forget.

I feel very fortunate that my book is reaching so many readers and getting...

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	Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats 4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 669 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	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) 3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	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 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003	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 (Editor), Kristen Iversen (Goodreads Author) 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003 — 4 editions	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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“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.”
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