Shirley Graves Cochrane was the author of poetry and fiction. Her books are: Letters to the Quick/Letters to the Dead (1998), The Fair-Haired Boy (1997), Truths & Half Truths (1996), The Jones Family (1992), Everything That’s All (1991), Family & Other Strangers (1986), and Burnsite (1979). She was born and died in North Carolina, but spent over thirty years in the DC area.
Cochrane worked as an editor of the University of North Carolina Press from 1946 to 1952. She taught in the English Departments of American University, Georgetown University, and Catholic University from 1974 to 2000, and at The Writer’s Center from 1978 to 2003. Cochrane was a founding member of the Capitol Hill Poetry Group. She was married for 59 years, from 1945 until her husband’s death, and was the mother of two sons.
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Shirley Graves Cochrane
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