MIA DÖRING

Mia is the author of the best-selling memoir “Any Girl” (Hachette, 2022). Her fiction, essays and articles have been published in the Sunday Miscellany Anthology, Ropes Literary Journal, Litro Magazine, The Bohemyth, The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent, Irish Country Magazine and more. She was awarded a 2022/23 mentorship with the National Mentoring Programme with the author Andrea Mara, and a place on the Irish Writer's Centre Evolution Programme 23/24, for which her mentor was the author Niamh Boyce. She is a 2024 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair winner with her novel baby, girl. She is working on her second novel with the working title Tether. Mia is grateful to be a recipient of the Arts Council Literary Bursary Award 2024. 

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Outside of writing, Mia has a small psychotherapy practice and appears in documentaries, podcasts and radio on issues around violence against women and sexual trauma, as well as speaking in colleges, schools and at conferences. She holds an BA in Fine Art from NCAD, an MA in broadcast journalism, a diploma in Psychology and a BA in Integrative Psychotherapy. Mia lives in Dublin by the sea.

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Mia is represented by Honor Spreckley from RCW Literary Agency. 

Photo: Ste Murray

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