She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2012, and is a current MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and featured nationally and internationally in publications such as It’s Nice That, Ain’t Bad, and Plain Magazine. Haydon's work tends to look to the past to say something about the present. Her current work focuses post-war Americana leisure in the forms of Bingo halls and bowling allies of the Midwest.