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Conlon is a member of Aosdána and has been appointed a writer-in-residence at educational institutions around the world, including the University College Dublin, the University of Minnesota, and Mishkanot Sha’anamin, Jerusalem. She is an adjunct professor in the creative writing MFA program at Carlow University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia.

Some of Conlon’s fictional work explores sociopolitical issues such as capital punishment, feminism, and the plight of refugees. In observing the overlap between her writing and political advocacy, Conlon has noted, "I don’t think you can be a ‘feminist’ writer, I think you’re a writer. I am a writer who is a feminist. And, my feminist consciousness affects the sort of things I enjoy writing about."

A member of Irishwomen United, Conlon was a founding member of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in 1979.

At the age of 19, Conlon went to Australia by ship in 1972 and worked at various jobs around the country. When she returned to Ireland by bus overland in 1975, she gave birth to her first child, returned to education at Maynooth College, where she also started a child care centre (creche). While earning her degree, she gave birth to her second child and separated from her husband.

Evelyn Conlon (born 1952) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Over the course of her career, Conlon has published dozens of novels, short stories, and essays. Her 2003 novel, Skin of Dreams, was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year.