Name: Hadley, aka "Hadley Hall Meares"

Web Site: http://35in52losangeles.blogspot.com/

Bio: Hadley Hall Meares is named after Ernest Hemingway’s first wife. Like those lost generation expats this 20-something has had a varied and highly amusing life. She was born in Chapel Hill, NC, to liberal, preppy hippies and grew up singing, acting, writing and watching lots of college basketball. She now does the first three professionally and would like to marry someone who coaches the fourth. Hadley then attended Hollins University, a small all-girls liberal arts school in the south. There she studied art and film history, writing, and partying in pearls and a trucker hat. Hadley studied abroad in London, worked in New York, Charleston and LA and has written for several online publications including Ostrich Ink and Quintessentially Magazine. After graduating cum nothing from Hollins, Hadley traveled cross country, got chased by a man with a gun, and settled in Los Angeles to pursue her love of storytelling. Her fiction has been published in the Santa Monica Review and the Southern Indiana Review, and she recently completed her first novel, Absolutely. She has played Henry V on stage, been a featured performer at the legendary Dresden (fulfilling her long held wish to be lounge singer) and only drinks champagne.