Mered­ith Mileti grad­u­at­ed from Hamil­ton Col­lege with a degree in Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture. She earned a Ph.D. in Devel­op­men­tal and Edu­ca­tion­al Psy­chol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh where she served on the grad­u­ate fac­ul­ty, spe­cial­iz­ing in children’s social and emo­tion­al adjust­ment and par­ent-child rela­tion­ships. Mered­ith resides in the Pitts­burgh area, where she is an active par­tic­i­pant in the arts and lit­er­ary com­mu­ni­ty. She is cur­rent­ly work­ing on her next novel.