Mary Dominica Pauley more commonly known as Mieka Pauley, is an American singer-songwriter. In 2008, she won the grand prize in both Cosmopolitan's StarLaunch and the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting Competition, and she was nominated for a Boston Music Award. In 2005, she won the grand prize in the first Starbucks Emerging Artist competition. She has appeared on Daytrotter, PRI Mountain Stage, BBC London, and Fox25 Boston. Pauley was born in Boston and raised in Ohio, Kentucky, South Florida, and Colorado, where she attended Cherry Creek High School. She returned to Boston to attend Harvard University, where she entered the local music scene and began performing at coffeehouses and open-mic nights. She has gone on tour with Citizen Cope and Edwin McCain. In June 2012, she released The Science of Making Choices, financed completely by fans via PledgeMusic. In August 2009, she released an EP From the Mouth of Paris under the short-lived band name "The Mieka Canon" via Cosmopolitan Magazine's StarLaunch. In November 2007, she released Elijah Drop Your Gun, also financed by fans. 

October 22nd, 1980 in Boston (Age 43)