[6] At the end of 2020 and start of 2021,[7][8] Virago Press and HarperVia (a HarperCollins imprint) acquired the rights Kohda's debut novel Woman, Eating, which was published in spring 2022 to critical acclaim.
[9][10] The novel is a character study on Lydia, "millennial vampire" art school graduate living on her own in London for the first time.
[11] She wanted to "step away from… reverence for the vampire" and "remove the vampire from the horror genre", taking inspiration from Asian literature that features the supernatural in grounded settings, to dissect human nature "by observing Lydia trying to just simply live her life in our world".
[15] Kohda plays a John Edward Betts violin, a Charles Espey bow, and the koto.
With the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO), her contributions appeared on National's 2023 albums First Two Pages of Frankenstein and Laugh Track.