Originally from Salem, Oregon, Micaela Edelson earned her BA in Environmental Studies & Public Policy from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania and subsequently received her MSc in Environment and Development from the University of Leeds on a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Scholarship. After a summer internship at the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, she traveled primarily in Eastern Europe, Turkey, Egypt, and India before returning home to the states. After almost three years of working for the World Wildlife Fund engaging corporates in their plastic portfolios, she left to work on a goat farm and at a public library in Boulder, CO. While there, she participated in the one-year residency program at the Oakley Art House. In November 2022, Micaela began a six-month backpacking adventure in Southeast Asia and India. In August 2023, Micaela began a three-year MFA program in Creative Writing & the Environment at Iowa State University.

Micaela is a copyeditor for The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy and a reader for Flyway Journal of Writing & Environment.