graduate of Smith College where she majored in Women’s Studies and
minored in Film. She spent a semester as an undergraduate at New
York University’s Tisch School of the Arts studying film, and then
wrote and directed the documentary “We Grew Up on a Commune” as her
Smith Scholar Project senior year. She went on to receive her
Master’s degree from American University in Film and Video Production
where she was a Teaching Assistant and Master Scholar.
She wrote and directed the dramatic feature, “Floating”,
about a
group of friends growing up and apart. It premiered at the New York
Film and Video Festival in 1998, and received a Kodak Film grant.
Her second feature, “Achilles’ Love”, was a romantic
comedy shot on
35mm. It was released by Castle Hill in 2000 and was called “…a
valentine to the warm ties of Pittsburgh’s Greek Americans and to
the
bumpy road of love “ by the New York Times.
Meredith’s screenplays have placed in the finals the Chesterfield,
as
well as other competitions. She was named a Playwriting/Screenwriting
fellow by the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2004.
She won the St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic Best Traditional
First
Mystery competition with her book “Posed for Murder” and it was published in 2009. The book was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Her second book, "Dead in the Water" came out in 2010, and continues the adventures of Lydia McKenzie in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Her short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and the anthology Murder New York Style. She is one of the featured authors in Making Story: Twenty-One Writers and How They Plot, which offers writing advice to aspiring authors
She is a member of both Mystery Writers
of America and Sisters in Crime, and currently serves on the board of
MWA-MA. She teaches writing at the University of Virginia.
Meredith Cole in WIlliamsburg, Brooklyn