Donna Meredith is a freelance writer living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her articles have appeared in Tallahasseemagazine, the Southern Literary Review, Columbia School Press Review, the Tallahassee Democrat, and the Midwest Review.
Her novel, The Glass Madonna, will be published by Wild Women Writers in late 2010. It won first place for unpublished women’s fiction in 2009 in the Royal Palm Literary Awards, sponsored by the Florida Writers Association. She also won first places in the 2007 Seven Hills short story and essay contests and a third place in the 2006 essay contest.
Donna Meredith taught English, Newspaper Journalism, and TV Production in public high schools in West Virginia and Georgia for 29 years. She earned a BA in Education with a double major in English and Journalism from Fairmont State College, an MS in Journalism from West Virginia University, and an EdS in English from Nova Southeastern University. She has also participated in fiction writing workshops at Florida State and served as a newsletter editor for the Florida State Attorney General’s Office. She resides in Tallahassee with her husband John and two Pomeranians.
She serves as president of the Tallahassee Writers Association and currently coordinates the Seven Hills Literary Contest.