Biography:

Madeline Hawley is a National Quilting Association Certified Judge.

Madeline Hawley, a resident of Georgia, spent the majority of her career at The University of Georgia in the area of small business and women entrepreneurs. She is a quilt judge, certified by the National Quilting Association, Inc., and a member of three guilds, Decatur Quilters (Ill., founding member), Cotton Patch Quilters in Athens, Georgia, and the Georgia Quilt Council.

From a base of traditional quilts, her focus expanded to art and challenge quilts, such as the two accepted in the "I Remember Mama" project, an exhibit shown at the International Quilt Festival in Houston (2004 and 2005) and the traveling exhibit in two other locations. Both of these quilts are pictured in the book, I Remember Mama, released in October 2005. Her quilt "She Can Bake A Cherry Pie" from the 2005 I Remember Mama Exhibit appeared in the January 2006 issue of "Quilter's Newsletter Magazine" . Her short story, "Georgia's Bounties", a tale of her involvement in providing a quilt for the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, will appear in a book, Patchwork Prose, scheduled for release in 2007.