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Katrina vanden Heuvel has been editor of The Nation since January 1995 and was acting editor of the magazine in 1994. She joined The Nation in 1984 as assistant editor. She writes frequently about Russian politics and society and for the past 10 years has divided her time between Moscow and New York. She is the co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton, 1989), and the editor of the magazine's anthology, The Nation: 1865-1990 (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990).
"Gorbachev's Soviet Union," a special issue of the magazine she conceived and edited, won a 1988 Olive Branch Award. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair. Vanden Heuvel is also co-editor of Vyi i Myi, a Russian-language feminist newsletter.
She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she studied politics and history. She lives in New York with her husband Stephen Cohen and their daughter Nicola.