Martha Bayne
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Martha Bayne is a journalist and essayist, and the senior acquisitions editor for regional trade books at the University of Illinois Press. She has edited several anthologies of writing about Chicago and the Midwest, including The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Publishing, 2019) and Rust Belt Chicago (Belt Publishing, 2017). Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O’Connor Means to Us, an essay collection coedited with Sonya Huber, is out July 22, 2025, from Atria/One Signal. Her reported work and essays have appeared in local and national outlets including the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Reporter, Belt Magazine, the Baffler, the Rumpus, Eater, Belt Magazine, and PRI/The World, and several anthologies. The recipient of a Pulitzer Center global reporting grant and a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship from the Medill School of Journalism, she received a 2020 Peter Lisagor Award for her reporting on the George Floyd protests in Chicago. A member of Theater Oobleck’s artistic ensemble, she is also the founder of Soup & Bread, a long-running community meal project that raises funds for local hunger relief.
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