Martha Bayne

Martha Bayne is a senior editor with Belt Publishing and a Chicago-based freelance writer. Her work has been published in regional and national outlets including Buzzfeed , Eater , the Chicago Reader , the Chicago Reporter , the Baffler , and Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism. She is the editor of Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology and Red State Blues: Stories from Midwestern Life on the Left , both published by Belt, and the author of the narrative cookbook Soup & Bread Cookbook:...See more

Martha Bayne is a senior editor with Belt Publishing and a Chicago-based freelance writer. Her work has been published in regional and national outlets including Buzzfeed , Eater , the Chicago Reader , the Chicago Reporter , the Baffler , and Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism. She is the editor of Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology and Red State Blues: Stories from Midwestern Life on the Left , both published by Belt, and the author of the narrative cookbook Soup & Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time (Agate, 2011). See less