Michaela Cavanagh is a journalist and writer focused on telling the human stories of the climate crisis. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, Die Zeit, Undark, the Globe and Mail and elsewhere. Her writing and reporting has been supported by the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, and the International Journalists’ Programme, among others. Her first book, PRESENT TENSE, is a globe-spanning work of environmental reportage forthcoming from The New Press and McClelland & Stewart in spring 2027. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and in 2024 she was a visiting researcher at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Born in Canada, she is now based in Berlin where she works as a freelance editor for Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster.