Meredith Doench

Meredith Doench is the LGBTQ+ crime author of the Luce Hansen Thriller Series from Bold Strokes Books. Crossed, the first in the series, was published in August of 2015 and was the runner-up for the 2015 IndieFab Awards in the Mystery Genre. Crossed was also awarded the Nancy Dasher Award in 2017 from the College English Association of Ohio. The second novel in the Luce Hansen Series, Forsaken Trust, was published in May of 2017 followed by Deadeye in July of 2019. Whereabouts Unknown, a sapphic stand-alone thriller, was released in 2021.

Doench’s short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in literary journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Lumina, Gertrude, Tahoma Literary Review, and many more. She was one of the founding associate prose editors of the literary journal, Camera Obscura: Journal of Literature and Photography. She is also a board member of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest Region.

Doench lives in Ohio where she is a principal lecturer of creative writing and literature at the University of Dayton.