Kira Lily Peikoff (; born May 21, 1985)"Kira Peikoff". Twitter. May 21, 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2014. is a journalist and novelist, based in New York City."About the Author" . Kira Peikoff. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
Personal life Kira Peikoff was born to Objectivist scholar Leonard Peikoff and his then-wife Cynthia Pastor Peikoff, a psychotherapist in private practice."Kira Peikoff, Matthew Beilis". The New York Times. June 17, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2014. She was named after the protagonist of Ayn Rand's We the Living."Could you define your reasons for choosing Kira as your daughter's name?". Leonard Peikoff. April 2, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2014. She grew up in Irvine, California, being home-schooled and then attending Woodbridge High School.Lopez, Alicia. "Former Woodbridge student pens suspense novel". Orange County Register. August 21, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2014. In 2007, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in journalism from New York University.Heller, Anne C. (2009), Ayn Rand and the World She Made, New York: Doubleday, p. 413, , OCLC 229027437. She married Matthew Beilis, a musician, in 2012.
Career During her undergraduate internships, Peikoff wrote about Congressional politics for the Orange County RegisterPeikoff, Kira. "Law keeps eyes on sex criminals". Orange County Register. August 21, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2014. and about business and technology for Newsday.Peikoff, Kira. "Big savings for the nest". Newsday. February 23, 2006. Retrieved June 11, 2014.Peikoff, Kira. "Gas retailers deny big profit". Newsday. May 1, 2006. Retrieved June 11, 2014. She also researched feature stories for New York magazinePeikoff, Kira. "Israeli Egg Farming". New York. October 24, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2014. and wrote for the New York Daily News.
After graduation, Peikoff worked as an editorial assistant for Henry Holt and Company and for Random House. Since 2013, she has worked as a freelance journalist on health and science, having written articles for The New York Times,Peikoff, Kira. "Fearing Punishment for Bad Genes". The New York Times. April 7, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2014. Slate,"Kira Peikoff". Slate. Retrieved May 12, 2014. Salon,"Kira Peikoff". Salon. Retrieved May 12, 2014. Cosmopolitan, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,Peikoff, Kira. "Personhood vs. stem cell research". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. May 25, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2014. Psychology Today and The Hastings Center Report.Peikoff, Kira. "Beware the Biomarkers for Criminal Behavior" . The Hastings Center Report. July/August 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
When Peikoff was 13 years old, Gone with the Wind inspired her to become a novelist. In 2008, Peikoff finished writing her debut novel, Living Proof, having taken a year off after university to write it;Petit, Zachary. "Important Writing Lessons From First-Time Novelists". Writer's Digest. January 7, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2014. the book was published in February 2012. Inspired by her disgust toward President George W. Bush's opposition to stem-cell research, Living Proof is a dystopian thriller set in a future time when embryo destruction is legally considered first-degree murder and fertility clinics are severely regulated by the government. The novel received largely positive reviews, among them a mildly positive review by Publishers Weekly,"Living Proof" . Publishers Weekly. December 12, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2014. a mildly negative review by Kirkus Reviews,"Living Proof". Kirkus Reviews. December 19, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2014. and positive reviews by Suspense Magazine and Mystery Scene magazine.
No Time to Die, a second biomedical thriller by Peikoff, was published in September 2014, receiving mildly positive reviews by the Romantic Times and NJ.com.
Peikoff is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors."Search Members Results". American Society of Journalists and Authors. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
She was also the founding editor-in-chief of the science publication Leaps.org, which was later acquired by Bayer. Peikoff continues to work for Bayer as Deputy Director of Innovations Communication and CEO Positioning.
Bibliography Living Proof (2012) No Time to Die (2014) Die Again Tomorrow (2015) Mother Knows Best (2019) Baby X (2024)
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