Micaela Brinsley was born in Tokyo, Japan. She's a writer, editor, and independent researcher of art, primarily of portraiture and the surrealist period. In the past, she's worked as a singer at 13, a bartender at 16, labour organiser in Los Angeles, a theatre director in New York City, an archivist in Amsterdam, and currently works as a freelance editor for journals of performance. As a writer, she explores language's materiality through playing with hybrid forms, and her work wrestles with the world as it is while envisioning alternative possibilities. She currently lives in Buenos Aires.