Martha Bayne

About Martha Bayne

Martha Bayne is a writer, editor, and Bloomingdale Trail neighbor. She has edited three nonfiction anthologies of writing about Chicago and the Midwest (Belt Publishing), and her essays and reported work have been published in many local and national outlets, including the Chicago Reader, South Side Weekly, the Baffler, the Rumpus, PRI/The World, and Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism. Currently the regional trade editor at the University of Illinois Press, she is also the founder of the community meal project Soup & Bread and a member of Theater Oobleck's artistic ensemble.

She has a website here, and a Substack where she sometimes writes about ducks here.