Michael L. Cain is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist who is now writing full-time. Michael earned an A.B. from Bowdoin College, an M.Sc. from Brown University, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

As a faculty member at New Mexico State University, he taught introductory biology, ecology, evolution, botany, and conservation biology.

Michael is the author of dozens of scientific papers on topics that include foraging behaviour in insects and plants, long-distance seed dispersal, and speciation in crickets. He is a coauthor of Campbell Biology in Focus and of an ecology textbook.