48. Mia Döring - Author, survivor, activist
Mia Döring is the author of Any Girl: a Memoir of Surviving Prostitution in Ireland, a 2022 best seller. Mia’s 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 is a 2024 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair winner with her novel baby, girl. She is working on her second novel. When she’s not 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 has given a TED talk on her experience. In a letter to Mia, Irish President Michael D. Higgens wrote, “your message is one of radical truth.”She holds an BA in Fine Art from NCAD, an MA in broadcast journalism, a diploma in Psychology and a BA in Integrative Psychotherapy. She lives in Dublin by the sea.NOTES FROM A GHOST is a podcast about stories and the people who tell them. My name is Charles Daly, and I’m a ghostwriter. If you have an epic story, I’d love to hear it. You can find me at Dalyprose.com or on LinkedIn.
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