K. Iver

K. Iver (they/them) is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Edition, was a finalist for an L.A. Times Book Prize, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Lambda Literary Award, and was selected as a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Public Library. Iver’s poems have been published in Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, the L.A. Review of Books, and elsewhere. Iver has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. They earned a PhD in poetry from Florida State University.