@miacarrill
Mia is a freelance writer and editor from Los Angeles, CA. She is currently living in Valencia, Spain.
Mia has had vivid dreams all her life and finds it remarkable that dreams are not a part of everybody’s daily life. Mia is interested in memory, dream-like states, and the stories the body holds below the surface. Her writing often explores selfhood and questions of identity, such as gender, race, sexuality, and class.
Currently, she is writing her first fiction work: a novella centered around desire, obsession, and art.
Recently, she started Ok, a multilingual literary net-magazine that you can check out here.
Her favorite book she read in 2025 was Anne Carson’s The Beauty of a Husband.
When she is not writing or reading, Mia likes to bike, climb, and be outdoors. She enjoys documenting her meals on Instagram, making clothing, and sometimes vlogging on YouTube.
CONTACTMia has had vivid dreams all her life and finds it remarkable that dreams are not a part of everybody’s daily life. Mia is interested in memory, dream-like states, and the stories the body holds below the surface. Her writing often explores selfhood and questions of identity, such as gender, race, sexuality, and class.
Currently, she is writing her first fiction work: a novella centered around desire, obsession, and art.
Recently, she started Ok, a multilingual literary net-magazine that you can check out here.
Her favorite book she read in 2025 was Anne Carson’s The Beauty of a Husband.
When she is not writing or reading, Mia likes to bike, climb, and be outdoors. She enjoys documenting her meals on Instagram, making clothing, and sometimes vlogging on YouTube.
1. A BODY OF ONE’S OWN
Reed College Thesis - 2024
[Full-Length Hybrid Collection]
- A collection of poetry and prose that explores how those around us make up our conception of “the self”. Most notably, through the women in my family. Explores what one does with generational trauma and the stories that are not ours but live in our bodies.
- The hybrid nature reflects the intersectional identity at the core of the collection and allowed me space to write about the tensions between race and class within Los Angeles, Chicano culture, and queerness.
- Advised by Joan Kane.
2. AWAY FROM HOME
Eddings Grant - 2023
- [Collection of 6 Personal Essays]
- Engages with the complexity of female friendship and queerness.
- Analytical and creative, this collection consists of personal essays that blur the line between poetry and prose.
- Presented the project at the end of the Summer to the Reed English Department.
4. MY LETTERS TO YOU
Substack - 2022-2024
[Blog: personal essays, poems, short fiction, etc]
- Consistently write (wrote) personal essays, flash fiction, prose, and poetry through Substack.
- Notable pieces include: reflections on writing a thesis, my time studying abroad in Italy, excerpts from my Eddings, etc.
- I typically explore(d) topics such as relationships, race, gender, connection, mental health, capitalism, and contemporary culture.
- Currently thinking through how I want to utilize this platform and have archived the majority of my work until I have decided how to move forward.
6. WHAT'S BETWEEN ROMANTIC AND MATERNAL LOVE?
COPY magazine - 2024
[Personal Essay]
- Reflects on the tenderness and complexity in female friendship.
- Excerpt from my Eddings Grant Collection, Away From Home.
5. FUNGUS
coming soon
[Flash Fiction]
- Follows love and enmeshment through a recurring yeast infection.
© last updated: 5 oct. 2025
Education
Employment
Freelance
Awards
Skills
Reed College
BA English & Creative Writing
2024
UNTITLED MEMOIR
Editor for Deanna Najman
since spring 2025
OK MAGAZINE
Founder
since fall 2025
BBTT
Editorial & Brand Strategist
since fall 2024
MAMITA VINTAGE
Content Assistant
since fall 2024
READCOPY.CO
Operations Associate
summer 2024
TIN HOUSE
Intern
summer 2022
CAR CRASH COLLECTIVE
Copyeditor
2024
JOAN KANE
Copyeditor
2024
BETWEEN MAGAZINE
Featured Writer
2024
Eddings Grant
Reed College
summer 2023
Summer Internship Award
Reed College
summer 2024
(Copy)Writing & (Copy)Editing
Creative Writing
Marketing
Digital & Social Media
Project Management
English
Spanish
last updated 30 nov. 2025