Award-winning journalist Michaela Cavanagh’s PRESENT TENSE: How We Reckon With the End of the World, a globe-spanning work of environmental reportage journeying through the emotional landscape of the climate crisis, unveiling the contradictions, paradoxes and trade-offs inherent in attempting to live well in a world on fire through a series of dispatches from climate change’s frontlines, pitched as if Adam McKay’s DON’T LOOK UP went on the road with NOMADLAND, to Ben Woodward at The New Press and Haley Cullingham at McClelland & Stewart, for publication Spring 2027, by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency (North America).
Michaela Cavanagh is a Canadian writer and journalist based in Berlin. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, Die Zeit, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Undark, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, and the International Journalists’ Programme, among others. 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.
Michaela is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations, Michaela!