Martha Bayne has worked in Chicago journalism and publishing for 30 years. Currently a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press, she has written a narrative cookbook, has edited three acclaimed anthologies of nonfiction writing about Chicago and the Midwest, and her reported work and essays have been published in many local and national outlets as well as on her Substack newsletter, Range of Motion. Her new book Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O’Connor Means to Us, coedited with Sonya Huber, was published in July 2025 by Atria/One Signal.