Photograph — Jesse Dittmar
K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi.
Their debut collection, Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco, won the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, selected by Tyehimba Jess, and was published by Milkweed Editions in 2023. It went on to win the Wisconsin Book Award, was named a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.
Iver holds a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University and has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. They hold the Roger F. Murray Chair in Creative Writing at Phillips Academy Andover and teach workshops at Brooklyn Poets.
Poems in Poetry Foundation, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Poetry Northwest, The Adroit Journal, TriQuarterly, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, and Columbia Journal.
