Martha Bayne

Martha Bayne is the editor of three anthologies of writing about Chicago and the Midwest, a senior editor at the University of Illinois Press, and a contributing editor for Chicago’s South Side Weekly newspaper. Her work has appeared in many local and national outlets, including the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, the Rumpus, Belt Magazine, Eater, PRI/The World, and San Juan’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. She is also the founder of a community meal project called Soup & Bread, and can be found on Substack at marthabayne.substack.com/.