diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 715cfde..27e845d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -35,3 +35,7 @@
   * mocha 0.14.x
   * blanket 1.1.5
 * Changed search location for `mocha` (resolved #17)
+
+### 0.1.1 (Dec 6, 2013)
+
+* Will now create any missing directories when writing output to a file (resolved #19)
diff --git a/lib/mocha.js b/lib/mocha.js
index 83a9155..5fb8d1f 100644
--- a/lib/mocha.js
+++ b/lib/mocha.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 var grunt = require('grunt'),
     path = require('path'),
     fs = require('fs'),
+    mkdirp = require('mkdirp'),
     coveralls = require('./coveralls');
 
 var BOOL_OPTIONS = [
@@ -153,9 +154,19 @@ function mocha(options, callback) {
     // Save report to disk
     } else if (options.output) {
 
-      var filename = path.resolve(options.output);
-      fs.writeFile(filename, String(result), 'utf8', function (err) {
-        callback(err);
+      var filename = path.resolve(options.output),
+          dir = path.dirname(filename);
+
+      fs.stat(dir, function (err) {
+
+        if (err) {
+          mkdirp.sync(dir);
+        }
+
+        fs.writeFile(filename, String(result), 'utf8', function (err) {
+          callback(err);
+        });
+
       });
 
     // Send report to stdout
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e40246f..61d86e0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "grunt-mocha-cov",
   "description": "Run Mocha server-side tests in Grunt with code coverage support and optional integration to coveralls.io.",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "author": "Mike Moulton <mike@meltmedia.com> (http://meltmedia.com)",
   "contributors": [
     "Gregg Caines <gregg@caines.ca> (https://github.com/cainus/node-coveralls)",
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
     "blanket": "1.1.5",
     "lcov-parse": "0.0.5",
     "request": "2.27.0",
-    "mocha-lcov-reporter": "0.0.1"
+    "mocha-lcov-reporter": "0.0.1",
+    "mkdirp": "0.3.5"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
     "grunt": "0.4.x"
diff --git a/test/mocha.js b/test/mocha.js
index 17d899b..cd794dc 100644
--- a/test/mocha.js
+++ b/test/mocha.js
@@ -143,6 +143,25 @@ describe('Unit Tests', function () {
     });
   });
 
+  it('should test coverage output when directory does not exist', function (done) {
+
+    mocha({
+      files: [__dirname + '/fixture/pass.js'],
+      quiet: true,
+      reporter: 'json-cov',
+      output: 'test/new/out.json'
+    }, function (error) {
+      should.not.exist(error);
+      var filename = path.resolve('test/new/out.json'),
+          dir = path.dirname(filename);
+      var jsonOutput = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(filename));
+      fs.unlinkSync(filename);
+      fs.rmdirSync(dir);
+      jsonOutput.coverage.should.equals(100);
+      done();
+    });
+  });
+
   it('should test coveralls integration', function (done) {
 
     mocha({