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Fresh Air Fail: What Happens When Personal Writing Draws a Spotlight

April 21st, 2013

Martha Bayne wrote a piece for The Rumpus about her unplanned pregnancy. Next thing she knew, she was being invited onto Fresh Air. That’s when things got sticky…

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Sunday Rumpus Essay: Knocked Over: On Biology, Magical Thinking and Choice

By Martha Bayne

September 2nd, 2012

Forty-four, single and accidentally pregnant. Before Martha Bayne can even decide whether this is a dream or a nightmare, the realities of insurance, economics and government legislature over women’s bodies kick in.

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Martha Bayne is a writer and editor based in Chicago. Founder of the Soup & Bread series of hunger-relief fundraisers at the Hideout, she is the author of the Soup & Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time (Agate/Surrey, 2011) and was honored with a Time Out Chicago "Eat Out" award in 2012. Her features and essays have appeared in Time Out Chicago, Bookforum, the Baffler, and the Chicago Reader, where she was on staff for ten years. For more see marthabayne.com and soupandbread.net; find her on Twitter as @soupandbread.