Meredith Davies Hadaway's collection of poetry, Fishing Secrets of the Dead, was a Word Press First Book Selection in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Bayou, Isotope, Gulf Stream, Margie, California Quarterly, the South Carolina Review, River Oak Review, and the Delmarva Quarterly as well as in the Literary House Press anthology entitled Here On The Chester. She is a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain and a book reviewer for Poetry International. She is also a musician who has performed in the U.S. and Ireland.

Hadaway earned her Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Vermont College. She lives in Chestertown, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where she serves as the Vice President for College Relations at Washington College.