About Martha Bayne
About Range of Motion
Hello!
I am a writer and editor based in Waukegan, Illinois (just up the road from Chicago). I worked for many years as a journalist and before moving into book publishing, and I am currently the regional trade editor at the University of Illinois Press, a very erratic freelance essayist, and participant in/agitator of a range of community building endeavors in and around Chicago. In 2022 I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer just ten days before my wedding; in the aftermath of that I am finding new joy in my body as I also grapple its inevitable limitations. This newsletter attempts to make sense of this absurd tension. Some people get religion after cancer, in other words, but I got a movement practice and it is giving life.