Martin Bauman is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared on air and in print across Canada and in the United Kingdom, including in The Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Capital Daily, Waterloo Region Record, and The Coast. In 2020, he was named one of five "emergent" nonfiction writers across Canada by the RBC Taylor Prize. A passionate speaker and mental health advocate, Bauman has been a youth panelist for the Canada-wide Spotlight on Invisible Disabilities Partnership and bicycled solo across Canada in 2016 to raise funds for community-based services in his hometown of Waterloo, Ontario. He holds an MFA in writing from the University of Victoria and now lives, writes, and rides his bicycle in Halifax, Nova Scotia.