Lia is an experienced creative writing teacher and workshop facilitator, she was writer-in-residence at Farmleigh House and at University College Dublin, and recently completed a Ph.D in creative writing at the University of Limerick.

In 2016 Lia Mills was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Laws by the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She is a founder member of the Freedom to Write Campaign (Ireland) and the current chairperson of the Board of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann.

Recent work has been published in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review of Books, the EFACIS Kaleidoscope project, Yes, We Still Drink Coffee! (published by Front Line Defenders and Fighting Words), The Danger and the Glory: Irish Authors on the Art of Writing, edited by Hedwig Schwall and Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020, edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.