13 Facts About Kira Cochrane

Kira Cochrane is a British journalist and novelist.

Kira Cochrane is the Head of Features at The Guardian, and worked previously as Head of Opinion.

Kira Cochrane's father died of a heart attack in 1979 at age 34; Cochrane was two years old.

In 1983, when Kira Cochrane was six years old, her elder brother was killed in a traffic accident.

Kira Cochrane attended Christ's Hospital school, Horsham before studying American Literature at the University of Sussex and the University of California, Davis.

Formerly a journalist at The Sunday Times, Kira Cochrane fills the position as current Head of Features at The Guardian.

Kira Cochrane was the newspaper's women's editor from 2006 to November 2010, when she was succeeded by Jane Martinson.

Kira Cochrane wrote a column for the New Statesman magazine from 2006 to July 2008 and has written occasionally for other news sources such as The Huffington Post.

Since beginning her career with The Guardian in 2006, Kira Cochrane continues to produce content covering women's empowerment and female leaders in progressivism.

Kira Cochrane has published four novels, Modern Women 52 Pioneers, All The Rebel Women, The Naked Season, and Escape Routes for Beginners, which appeared on the long list for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction.

In 2009, Kira Cochrane herself appeared on the judging panel for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction.

Kira Cochrane has edited an anthology of women's writing, which has appeared in The Guardian, Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism.

Kira Cochrane began her research and reporting of the fourth wave in 2013, upon collecting information for All the Rebel Women.