Winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, Les Portes traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. Unfolding in three movements—Le Début, Le Passé, and Le Présent—all of which rupture conventional domestic abuse narratives, and drawing heavily from zuihitsu, ekphrasis, erasure, and found forms to mirror the fractured experience of living through and after harm, these poems serve as radical meditations on the power to reflect as resistance. A queer woman caught in an abusive marriage begins to reimagine justice not as punishment but as something restorative, collective, and deeply non-carceral. Les Portes will be available from Autumn House Press in 2026.

I Could Never Be Your Woman was selected by Herman Beavers as the winner of the 2022 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize from Cave Canem. It examines queer domestic abuse through a chronological charting of an abusive relationship. I Could Never Be Your Woman is available through O, Miami Books. 

Meredith’s first chapbook, A Hunger Called Music: A Verse History of Black Music, was selected in 2016 as a winner of C&R Press’s Winter Soup Bowl Competition. Borrowing from such sources as archival recordings and news stories, A Hunger Called Music documents the early history of African-American music beginning with work songs and ending with Motown-era soul. It is available from C&R Press.