About
Meredith Hobbs Coons is a writer of interviews, criticism, and songs; a speech-language therapist with specialties in emergent communication and voice; a musician; a podcaster; and a recording enthusiast who lives on the Central Coast of California with chronic migraines and asthma, a neuroqueer (AuDHD) lineage and brain, and the children she loves and parents in cooperation with her husband, three cats, and dog.
She writes about neurodiversity, care, community, craft, and communication, as well as emotions and identity, through her own creative work and the examination of others’ artistic endeavors. She has penned film and television criticism for The A.V. Club. She has written essays about music and its creation and has interviewed musicians, songwriters, producers, and engineers for Tape Op, The Tonearm, SoundGirls, Aquarium Drunkard, and The Talkhouse. Her Tape Op interviews with producer Jennifer DeCilveo and recording artist SASAMI will be published in the collection Making Music: Conversations with Record Producers out September 1st, 2026 via Akashic Books. She has contributed the introduction to Yoko Oji Kikuchi’s Coinkydink, Vol. 1 zine (2024) and co-authored/co-illustrated the comic zine Cat Tales(2025) with her. She co-wrote the microhorror film Hair Raiser (2025).
From 2020 to 2022, she produced and hosted a weekly Instagram Live series called Single Song Shows on which she would perform one original song on guitar before inviting a scheduled guest to join virtually and share a song of their own. She has produced, edited, and co-hosted the fan podcast Wilco Will Love Youwith Mary MacLane Mellas since 2021, for which they have interviewed fans, academics, music journalists, musicians, and half of the bands’ members.
Since 2009, she has produced, written, and performed music as a singer-songwriter, sometimes under the moniker Lamb’s Ear or in a trio with her husband and father called Nine Pie Picnic. She has contributed vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, and bass to her recordings. Her releases include the album I Know She’s My Friend(2014), some singles, and a substantial body of unreleased music. After reading interviews with Fiona Apple following the 2020 release of Fetch the Bolt Cutters in which the artist detailed aspects of her home recording process, Meredith sought out women-led organizations including Women’s Audio Mission, Omni Sound Project, and SoundGirls to obtain audio engineering and production skills herself. She has applied what she has learned to her own music-making and music writing, and has also tracked, co-produced and mixed the song “Lovers These Days” for Chloe Rose Smith—one of her favorite artists.
She has obtained certification as a nurse assistant, academic degrees in Creative Writing (B.A.) and Communication Disorders and Sciences (M.S.), and has provided speech-language therapy services in early intervention, private practice, and elementary/high school settings. Her experience in these disciplines has compelled her to deepen her understanding of neurodiversity-affirming practices and incorporate this knowledge into her work as a writer, interviewer, and lyricist.