Martha Baillie lives and works in Toronto. Her memoir There Is No Blue won the Hilary Weston Writers Trust non-fiction prize in 2025. Her novel The Incident Report was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was released as the feature film, Darkest Miriam, starring Britt Lower, in 2024. The Search for Heinrich Schlögel was an Oprah editors’ pick. Sister Language, co-written with her late sister, Christina Baillie, was a 2020 Trillium Award finalist. Martha’s nonfiction can be found in Brick: A Literary Journal. Her poetry has appeared in the Iowa Review. Her multimedia project based on The Search for Heinrich Schlögel is archived at www.schlogel.ca.