Welcome to Meredith Cole's Author Page

Meredith Cole grew up outside of Charlottesville, Virginia.  She is a graduate of Smith College and received her Masters degree from American University in Film and Video Production.

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 Pittsburghs Greek Americans and to the bumpy road of love by the New York Times.

Merediths 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, taught directing at the School of Visual Arts, and teaches screenwriting and mystery writing at WriterHouse in Charlottesville.

She was the winner of the St. Martins Press/Malice Domestic competition, and her book POSED FOR MURDER, also featuring Lydia McKenzie, was published by St. Martins in February 2009.  Merediths short story Exercise is Murder was in the June 2008 issue of EQMM, and her short story Out in the Cold, is in the anthology MURDER NEW YORK STYLE.  Her second book, DEAD IN THE WATER, also featuring Lydia McKenzie, will be out in May 2010.