K. Iver

K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. They are the author of Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023), which Tyehimba Jess selected for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. Iver's work has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Adroit, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. They were the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow for the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the recipient of the 2022 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant. They have a Ph.D. in poetry from Florida State University. They live in Madison, Wisconsin.