Background
She was born and raised in Essex.
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Kira Cochrane
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University of Sussex.
Career
She read American Literature at Sussex and University of California, Davis. Formerly a journalist on The Sunday Times, she is a feature writer on The Guardian and was the newspaper"s women"s editor from 2006 to November 2010, when she was succeeded by Jane Martinson. Cochrane is now a features writer on the newspaper.
Cochrane wrote a column for the New Statesman magazine from around 2006 to July 2008.
Achievements
Politics
She co-edited (with Eleanor Mills) Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists (published as Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women in the United Kingdom) and has edited an anthology of women"s writing which has appeared in The Guardian, Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism.
