As a journalist Dominique Conil has for more than a decade reported primarily on Russia and the Aral Sea as well as reporting on prisons with the newspaper Libération. She regularly collaborates with Michel Butel's L'Autre Journal and, subsequently, with L'Événement du Jeudi, DS Magazine, L'Humanité (major reportages) and the Cosmopolitaine program on France Inter radio.
In 2008, she received the Inédit Acts-Sud-Le Monde award for her novel Hope for the War published by Actes Sud. She maintains a blog on the online daily Mediapart, for which she has also been a literary critic since 2011.
