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 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. Micaela then left for a six-month backpacking adventure in Southeast Asia and India. She subsequently earned her MFA in Creative Writing & the Environment from Iowa State University.

Currently, Micaela is pursuing representation for her MFA thesis, a travel memoir that uses Japanese Shinto as a lens to reflect on human-environment interaction.

Micaela is an assistant nonfiction editor for Terrain.org, a copyeditor for The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy, and has served as a managing editor for Flyway Journal of Writing & Environment.