Theodora Hermina "Dora" van der Meiden-Coolsma (7 November 1918 – 19 June 2001) was a Dutch columnist and the author of children's fiction.

[1] As the daughter, wife, and sister of Dutch Reformed ministers, and the granddaughter of the missionary Sierk Coolsma,[2][3] most of her fiction was on Christian topics.

From Suriname, she wrote columns for the daily newspapers Nieuwsblad van het Noorden and the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant.

Later, she wrote a series of articles for the Dutch women's magazine De Vrouw en haar Huis [nl].

[4] They had four children, among whom the historian and translator Pim van der Meiden [nl] (1941–2017).