Michele Meek is a writer, filmmaker and educator.

She earned an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and is currently a Ph.D. candidate and Teaching Assistant in the English Department at the University of Rhode Island. She presented her paper “Art and Hoax: The Street Art Movement and Viral Marketing of Exit through the Gift Shop” at the 2011 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, and her essay “Marriage, Adultery & Desire: A Subversive Subtext in Baby Doll” was published in the 2011 edition of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review. In March 2012, she will present her paper "The Exile of Form and Femininity in Marilú Mallet’s Diary Film Journal Inachevé" at the College English Association Conference.She has guest-lectured at Boston College and Emerson College and has taught film and writing courses at Emerson College, Boston Film Video Foundation and Massachusetts College of Art.

She has written extensively on film and travel in leading publications such as MovieMaker Magazine, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, WHERE Magazine, Bonjour Paris and indieWIRE. In 2009, she edited the book The Independent's Guide to Film Distributors, which provides the acquisition and contact details to nearly 200 independent and niche film distributors in addition to essays on marketing and distributing independent media. An updated edition of the book is anticipated for a 2012 release.

She pioneered the development of NewEnglandFilm.com, the premiere magazine and resource for independent filmmaking in the northeast, and led the transition of the 30-year-old film magazine The Independent to the nonprofit organization Independent Media Publications where she remains a board member.

She received the 2005 Baldwin Award for Alumni Recognition in Film & Video by Boston College and the 2000 Image Award for Vision and Excellence by Women in Film & Video New England. She has served on numerous juries for film awards, festivals and screenwriting competitions.

Her successes have been lauded in Inc. Magazine, National Public Radio, and The Boston Globe, and she has spoken on numerous panels including the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, Convergence at Tribeca, Global Entertainment Network Summit, among others.