Meredith is an artist who works at the intersection of writing, visual art, and performance. Her work has spanned multiple mediums and genres, though they are best-known to the public as a book author and journalist. Meredith is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Fairest from Viking/Penguin Random House, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and best book of 2020 by multiple venues, including O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie-Claire, Electric Literature, and Library Journal, and was chosen for both the Teen Vogue and LitHub Book Clubs. She has also contributed to several essay collections, including the New York Times Bestselling Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. She has been the recipient of the Poynter Fellowship at Yale, and the Marsha P. Johnson Fellowship at the Jack Jones Writers Retreat.
They received an MFA in fiction from Cornell University, and has stories and essays published or forthcoming in Guernica, Boston Review, LitHub, Catapult, The New Inquiry, and in the story anthology Anonymous Sex. She also received an MA in comparative literature from Cornell, where she published articles in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial Text, and Arcade, as well as translations for Berfrois and Epiphany.
As a journalist, Meredith has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, WIRED, SELF, and Condé Nast Traveler, among many other publications. She has received awards from GLAAD, The Society of Professional Journalists, The Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Meredith is also the founding executive editor of them, Condé Nast’s LGBTQ+ digital platform, where she is currently contributing editor. She is also a contributing editor for Catapult and is on the board of Electric Literature. Meredith is currently guest faculty for the Sarah Lawrence and Antioch College MFA writing programs, and has taught at several residencies and conferences, including Tin House, Banff Centre, and Grub Street.