Meredith Cole directed feature films and wrote screenplays before writing mysteries. She won the St. Martin's/Malice Domestic competition in 2007. Her book POSED FOR MURDER, set in Williamsburg Brooklyn, will be published by St. Martin's Minotaur in 2009. Her short story "Exercise is Murder" is in the June 2008 issue of EQMM, and her short story "Out in the Cold," is in the anthology MURDER NEW YORK STYLE.