Is it possible to make meta-phenol?
The hydroxyl groups in phenols are ortho-/para-directing. So, if you want to introduce a group in the meta position with respect to a hydroxyl group you will have to "overwrite" the ortho-/para-preference. This can be done by starting out with meta-directing group which can later be transformed into $\ce{OH}$ in the position where the hydroxyl group shall be. Then you only need to introduce the group you want to be in the meta-position by a simple electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction and subsequently convert the meta-directing group into $\ce{OH}$.

An example for this procedure would be to start out with a carbonyl group at the position of the $\ce{OH}$ group, then nitrate the aromatic ring in the meta position and employ the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation to introduce a $\ce{OH}$ group:



Or you start out with a nitro group at the position of the $\ce{OH}$ group, then introduce chlorine in the meta position of the aromatic ring, reduce the nitro group to an amine, which is then coverted into an diazonium salt which in turn is then transformed into a $\ce{OH}$ group using a Schiemann-type reaction: