Coles was educated at Memorial University of Newfoundland and at the National Theatre School of Canada.
She is executive director for Riddle Fence and has been writer-in-residence at the Arts and Culture Centre in St.
She has written several plays, including Our Eliza, The Battery, Bound, Falling Trees, Grace and Squawk.
[1] Her debut novel, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club, was published in 2019.
[6] At the 2022 Governor General's Awards, Mélissa Verreault won the Governor General's Award for English to French translation for the novel's French-language edition, Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin.